Sentence examples for would be lamentable from inspiring English sources

"That would be lamentable".

It would be lamentable to revert to such a state.

This would be lamentable: the revelations amount to a reversal of what intelligence officials have been claiming for 30 years.

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

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.

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.

That would be a lamentable fate for the "Great Sea", invoked in a Jewish prayer which gives this book its title.

The loss of Belle Isle to private purchasers, beholden only to themselves, would be a sad addition to this lamentable list.

He writes that "the whole place is as bad as a pest house" but says that "it would be indeed a lamentable thing to see so fine a city destroyed".

"The use of nor'easter to describe a northeast storm is a pretentious and altogether lamentable affectation, the odious, even loathsome, practice of landlubbers who would be seen as salty as the sea itself".

Military analysis: The Iraqi army was lamentable but would Rumsfeld's doctrine work against a first- class enemy?