Sentence examples for lamentable if from inspiring English sources

Audio quality and volume will likely be lamentable if not using headphones.

After all the grueling work and effort and her commendable qualifications, it would be lamentable if she were brought down by her undisciplined husband.

Rabinowitz's statements were widely ridiculed and would simply be lamentable if not for recurring recent news items like this one, in which 8 pedestrians and bystanders were injured by a car that jumped the curb in the East Village, possibly as a result of drunken drag-racing.

No one develops an appetite for huge social upheaval "on a laugh," and it would be lamentable if the smooth metropolitan types simply took this as evidence of Britain's failing education system.

Their surrender was lamentable, but, if they concluded that their chances of prevailing against a powerful minister in a trial court were minimal, they were surely not wrong.

All loss of life in this conflict is lamentable, especially if one believes that the ceasefire will not hold.

All that is fine and well, if lamentable for the characters; our loss is that Laura isn't believable.

Why all these cars have grown is a mystery, but it's a lamentable trend, especially if we're trying to save energy.

The narrator's brother is a very busy and popular doctor, and a hiatus in his office staffing was responsible for this understandable if lamentable mixup.

This concept of necessary, if lamentable, sacrifice in the face of the Soviet monolith helped define the espionage masterpieces of the cold war.

SIR —Your sober reflection on the "criminal negligence of Mr. Bush's administration" ultimately offers the lamentable excuse that if only the war had been undertaken with "humility, honesty and courage," it might have turned out differently.You are badly mistaken.