Example Sentences

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"We will come into work and find patients really suffering – in pain, breathless, agitated or with nausea and vomiting. It is hard to over-state how lamentably badly-resourced palliative care services are."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

The ones in Professor Shugerman’s essay, lamentably, are not even legally persuasive.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

Smith is very effective here and in later scenes after Peter escapes, and the actor brings feeling and intensity to a role that is lamentably short of nuance and character insight.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

The apple falls lamentably far from the tree where Florian Zeller’s “The Son” is concerned.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2022

Mr. Hancock had indeed found a smith to make it after Mr. Lapham failed so lamentably.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes