Sentence examples similar to a lamentable instance from inspiring English sources

Frankly it is hard to find a similarly lamentable instance of regulatory malfunction outside the Third World.

Incarcerating females is often simply a lamentable case of victimising the victimised.

Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan described the prosecution's case as "a lamentable shambles" and "parody of justice".

It is a "lamentable" story.

"It has been a lamentable incident.

It's a lamentable rate of failure.

A lamentable loss to a neighborhood?

Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a lamentable fashion.

And Germany's retail sector was in a lamentable state.

Bewailing for his lover with a lamentable whine.

Max Hastings reckons he would have made a lamentable soldier.