Sentence examples for was a lamentable from inspiring English sources
If that strategy was meant to prey on Chelsea's nerves it was a lamentable failure.
Scratch the surface, however, and in almost every respect this was a lamentable result for the ruling coalition, its worst ever.
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.
"Taking Woodstock" just felt slight, but the red-and-ebony Shanghai spy movie "Lust, Caution" was a lamentable case: a great idea, but filled with pointless elaboration and unnecessary sequences.
As long as widespread poverty was something in distant lands, it was a lamentable but acceptable part of the natural order, acknowledged by a few million in aid or a guilty goat at Christmas.
That it was afflicted by "institutional paralysis", and that there was a "lamentable failure" by Railtrack to respond to earlier incidents involving signals on the Ladbroke Grove section of track outside Paddington.
It is a "lamentable" story.
"It has been a lamentable incident.
It's a lamentable rate of failure.
Contradiction, even hypocrisy, seems to be a lamentable trait of mammoth publishers.
It is a lamentable irony, then, that Globish has been so energetically popularised by a Frenchman.
