How to Use lamentation in a Sentence

lamentation

noun

• And there is hope, as well as lamentation, in its sweet, sad sound.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• This is not to further pan for lamentations over the demise of a website.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2019
• In the scrap for lamentation, everyone wants to be top dog.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2018
• Jews read from the Book of Lamentations and reflect on the work ahead to fulfill the vision of hope and promise the Torah provides.
  — Courant Community, 3 July 2017
• Some snapped photos of the path and its canopy of trees to share as lamentations on social media.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
• Coltrane’s lamentation for four black schoolgirls killed by the Ku Klux Klan in a 1963 church bombing.
  — Bill Beuttler, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2018
• In some parts, the book did not age as well as its author, despite her lamentations about her neck.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
• The ululation at the beginning gives way to the spoken word feel of the rapping and a dirge-like lamentation sequence, all against the steady beat of the parai drums.
  — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021
• But something’s missing in the lamentation over the Apple buds and their erosion of social norms.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
• The voice: a low, guttural rasp, it’s the aural equivalent of slithering, the wheezy lamentation of a leprechaun long past his sell-by date.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• The epic ends with a trio of women’s voices—those of Hector’s wife, his mother, and Helen of Troy—lifted in lamentation.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• This is a book of lamentations — the last, half-hearted clause in the subtitle stands in for a last, half-hearted chapter full of solutions.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 7 May 2017
• But the sounds of lamentation never carry as far as those of rockets, missiles, artillery, bombs.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Their one night off from their daughter’s deathbed, the true reason for the friends’ visit, had obviously been spent in lamentation.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2020
• And these lamentations about disrespect of the FBI and the intelligence services should stop.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 6 Feb. 2018
• Peak lamentation came from Mosul’s older diaspora, some of whom had left Iraq in the 1970s.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 July 2017
• In an impassioned speech, preceded by prayers of lamentation, Greear blamed the crisis on years of cover-ups.
  — Jay Reeves and David Crary, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2019
• And when Ophelia (a mostly very sane-seeming Sheila Vand) goes mad, her lamentations are also in Persian.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• In Washington, there’s plenty of lamentation over what went wrong.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• Early on Shaw’s enunciation lacked crispness, and grimaces plus gestures did not make up for the lamentation that was more in the words than the tone quality of the voice.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Few are likely to bemoan the absence of the long choral interludes of description or lamentation.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• In keeping with the conceit established in the intro, the album ends with the theme of repentance and redemption like the closing verse of Lamentations.
  — Irvin Weathersby, Esquire, 20 Apr. 2017
• In the background one of his young children, teething and not happy about it, offered wordless lamentation for extra tension.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• Their lamentations were also a coded attack on ultra-leftist zealots who were circling the ailing Mao, now that Zhou was gone.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• Not until the work's third movement did Ferree's instrument step forward to sing out its own lamentation.
  — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021
• Gray holds court with a nebbishy, self-mocking churn of anecdote and lamentation, and his humor, in the outer-borough Ashkenazi style, can leave one unsure where the shtick ends and the real self-loathing starts.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Flamenco is street opera; an ecstatic mode of complaint; lamentation, some say, straight from the cavelike forges of the Romany blacksmiths.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019
• Hughes used that lamentation to argue that this writer — of Black middle-class upbringing — wanted to be white.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
• At the very least, the book is timely, particularly in its lamentation of the hatefulness — the word is not too strong — of the nation's political divide.
  — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
• At first, there was silence, but now a great communal lamentation convulsed the assembled.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023

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