Sentence examples for lamentable one from inspiring English sources

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The tale of what Jefferies' solicitor has called his client's "monstering" is a particularly lamentable one, but the full horror failed to come across.

Lord Birkenhead thought that Johnson's decision to give up alcohol was a lamentable one, and his excessive use of tea must have accelerated his death from dropsy.

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Together they have made great contributions to our cinematic library ("Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy") and lamentable ones ("Step Brothers").

The old wounds and new divisions opened up by Brazil's impeachment vote were evident on Tuesday when Dilma Rousseff said it was "lamentable" that one of her accusers had glorified the torture used against her and others during the dictatorship era.

They were so lamentable at one point that Buckley said he couldn't remember seeing anything like it in his two decades in the game.

Their interminable winter wanderings have seen Test defeat by Sri Lanka, Test victory over New Zealand (who they face again this month at home), and the usual lamentable groundhog one-dayers.

As an adult, he remembered Edward Alleyn's Tamburlaine, "stalking" the stage like "spindle-shank spiders" on a ceiling; described the "lamentable action of one arm" of "old Titus Andronicus"; imagined "each ale-brewer" re-enacting "the Jew of Malta".

A lamentable shortcoming of "One World" is its failure to dwell more on the experience of the European Union in this and other areas.

One woman who spoke about her affinity for cocktail play dates admitted to one lamentable incident.

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

Its legacy as the birthplace of punk, the epicenter of the New York hardcore scene, and the locus of the nation's most notoriously filthy bathrooms has been meticulously detailed in documentaries, books, and one lamentable feature film.

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