Sentence examples for a lamentable mistake from inspiring English sources

But I can come to only one conclusion: Either Snelling was so overcome that he lost control of his faculties, or he made a lamentable mistake.

When Tea Partiers echo his rhetoric, we dismiss it as a lamentable misunderstanding.

While regularly reminding us (and maybe himself) of Churchill's greatness, Hastings describes one lamentable mistake after another.

He is determined not to repeat Yasser Arafat's lamentable mistake of accepting peace with Israel while taking on trust the amount of land to be given back.Israelis, for their part, feel no goodwill towards Syria: Mr Assad and his acid-tongued foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, have seen to that.

But the author flinches from condemning even the most lamentable mistakes outright.

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.

Bewailing for his lover with a lamentable whine.