LAMENTATION in a Sentence

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He found the doleful lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAMENTATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lamentation
 n.  the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
 n.  a cry of sorrow and grief
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  At any other time, the news of this disaster would have brought fear and lamentation to Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  More and more friends gathered round while the lamentation about these things was going on.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  Somehow or other they got rid of their guest, and then they passed a night of lamentation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
4  On the other hand, the women broke out of the lodges, with the songs of joy and those of lamentation so strangely mixed that it might have been difficult to have said which passion preponderated.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
5  His look never changed throughout the whole of the scene, nor did a muscle move in his rigid countenance, even at the wildest or the most pathetic parts of the lamentation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
6  There was one shot through the body, who raised a cry of bitter lamentation when came this lull.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  From another a shrill lamentation rang out filled with profane allusions to a general.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
8  On these words the old woman covered her face with her hands; she began to weep and made lamentation saying, "My dear child, I cannot think whatever I am to do with you."
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
9  This lamentation drew no notice from me: I went briskly to work, sighing to remember a period when it would have been all merry fun; but compelled speedily to drive off the remembrance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  Afar the soul prophetic of ill knew their lamentation: he soils his gray hairs plenteously with dust, and stretches both hands on high, and clings on the dead.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
11  When Aeneas entered at the high doorway they beat their breasts and raise a loud wail aloft, and the palace moans to their grievous lamentation.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
12  I thank, too, his courtesy, and that of his companion, which hath brought them hither to behold the widow of Adeling, the mother of Athelstane, in her deep hour of sorrow and lamentation.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  When at last he had breathed his last, and there arose a universal lamentation in the house, Vassily Ivanovitch was seized by a sudden frenzy.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  We cut firewood from a wood where the headland jutted out into the sea, and after we had wept over him and lamented him we performed his funeral rites.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
15  She then went upstairs to her own room, not alone, but attended by her maidens, and when there, she lamented her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyelids.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
2  We lamented over our bad luck.
3  The nation lamented the death of its great war leader.
4  It is lamentable that the officer failed to deal with the situation.
5  He composed a lament to the dead soldier.
6  Ken began to lament the death of his only son.
7  Even advocates of the war lament the loss of so many lives in combat.
8  He found the doleful lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.
9  For all the lamentations that schools do not teach the game, it is still played in some areas.
10  She's always lamenting the lack of sports facilities in town.
11  The poem opens by lamenting the death of a young man.
12  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.