How To Use Lamentably In A Sentence

  • lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
  • In fact for a lamentably depraved condition of all the bodily health, such as characterises advanced locomotor ataxy, and allied spinal degradations leading to general physical failure. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • It's a kind of talent -- a gift, you might say -- like breakin 'horses or tamin' wild animals," he was wont to reply modestly when questioned by those who followed his example and failed lamentably. The Fighting Shepherdess
  • Offending family-orientated Confucian values, neither dried-fish woman nor herbivore man is much interested in romance, part of the reason why Korea's fertility rate is lamentably lowa.
  • Although, lamentably, the Octave of Pentecost does not exist in the Ordinary Form, there is nothing to prevent the offering of the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (and thus the use of red vestments) on the ferial days after Pentecost Sunday. Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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  • Coming off four heavy defeats on the bounce, his charges looked lamentably short on confidence.
  • Lamentably, the contribution to the Baroque made by the 17th century lutenist composers of the French School has not been fully realized, quantified or understood.
  • boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear. Cabbages and Kings
  • In all likelihood some were headbangers who failed lamentably at school.
  • Some of the most thought-provoking, soul-stirring films at the festival remained lamentably under the radar.
  • Ireland excels at macroeconomics, but fails lamentably at microeconomics.
  • He was lying on a small camp-bedstead in a corner between the fireplace and the wall, and in a glass on a mantelpiece was an arum lily, sere and yellow, which drooped lamentably down over his head.
  • The recent floods in Yorkshire were lamentably derivative and showed a complete failure of creative imagination.
  • The southern states are loud in vehement threats of secession, if the republican candidate is elected; but their bluster is really lamentably ludicrous, for they are without money, without credit, without power, without character – in short, sans everything, but so many millions of slaves, sans good numbers of whom they would also be the very moment they cut themselves adrift from the protection of the North. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
  • The hint that the "boodle" was "six figures short" made the condition of the national treasury lamentably clear. Cabbages and Kings
  • -- While his regiment was in daily expectation of receiving orders for Ireland, some one told him, that country quarters in the sister kingdom were so filthy, that the rich uniforms of his corps would soon be lamentably soiled: 'Let the men act as dragoons, then,' said his royal highness, 'and _scour the country_.' The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832
  • He was fairly strong at the end of the last session, but went off lamentably on account of his wavering and shillyshallying on so many matters during his speaking trip. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
  • The most successful modern reconciler of faith and the imperatives of modern life, King Hussein of Jordan, lamentably died not long ago.
  • Although it is merely sixty pages long, and lamentably lacks footnotes, it is nonetheless the best and most up-to-date capsule history of Chinese porcelains made for the European and American markets available.

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