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All the songs, the melodies of some of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of evoking tears.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAMENTABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lamentable
 a.  mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Father Fauchelevent was rattling in the throat in the most lamentable manner.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
2  All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
3  There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, all was silence now.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
4  But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations and trumpet bursts of Jondrette.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
5  She had besides, more than formerly, in her face that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a prison adds to wretchedness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS
6  All the songs, the melodies of some of which have been collected, were humble and lamentable to the point of evoking tears.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
7  These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
8  Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
9  The vision of the action into which he felt that he was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more as lamentable, but as superb.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
10  It wore the lamentable aspect of all constructions of hatred, ruin.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
11  Thenardier and his daughter Azelma, the only two remaining of that lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
12  The lamentable weakness of the words roused a motion of pity in Lily's breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
13  She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
14  For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  Having uttered those words in a most lamentable and heart-broken tone: to the immeasurable delight of her hearers: Miss Nancy paused, winked to the company, nodded smilingly round, and disappeared.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  It is lamentable that the officer failed to deal with the situation.
2  We lamented over our bad luck.
3  The nation lamented the death of its great war leader.
4  He composed a lament to the dead soldier.
5  Ken began to lament the death of his only son.
6  Even advocates of the war lament the loss of so many lives in combat.
7  He found the doleful lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.
8  For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.
9  She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
10  The poem opens by lamenting the death of a young man.
11  With even Mr. Maduro lamenting the tragedy during a speech on national TV, the young woman's death has resonated in part because she was a pageant winner in a country that has long prized its production of more Miss Universe winners than any other country.
12  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.