Sentence examples similar to lamentable blow from inspiring English sources

He catered directly to schoolboy taste by relating the awful death of Mr William Eley, who "undertook the copper-cap trade; and, lamentable to relate, was blown to atoms by an awful explosion of fulminating mercury, from which every one and every thing around him escaped with, comparatively, little injury".

If you grew up then, they were notable mostly for their total lack of dirty bits, despite some promisingly saucy covers, and a lamentable film starring Griff Rhys Jones and a blow-up doll.

So, yes, it's lamentable that he was to have been Prospero for Michael Powell, only for that Tempest to blow out.

"That would be lamentable".

This is lamentable".

"The result was lamentable.

That's lamentable".

It's lamentable".

Meanwhile, accountability remains lamentable.

Lamentable hygiene standards.

It is a "lamentable" story.