Lamentation In A Sentence

Q: How to use lamentation in a sentence?

1. And loud the lamentation was of all. 2. There was lamentation in the house. 3. Many years ago that lamentation was familiar. 4. A wail of lamentation goes up from our street. 5. I never heard a more touching lamentation for the dead.

How To Use Lamentation In A Sentence?

And what great weeping and lamentation there was in the palace when the dreadful news was told!
We gather from the same source the lamentation of the books in the evil times that followed.
At this lamentation of the king, all present become sorry and express their regrets.
And how shall I be profited, if he is stripped and falls to lamentation and weeping?
He said, and vanished with a dismal sound Of lamentation from his grisly troop.
There was mourning and lamentation in Alexandria and throughout all Egypt when the tidings came.
He began to realise again his former condition when his life was full of the lamentation of the child.
In their lamentation they inserted a melancholy song, with innumerable extravagant things in praise of the dead.
May there be no sighs for lost beauty, no grief over faded youth and no lamentation over lost fortune.
Behold this bag of money, and raise thy voice with mine in lamentation over the miseries of the unfortunate.
This motive of lamentation is worked out on a grand scale, and in intimate association with the motives of brooding and of warning.
The shock of this intelligence was very great, as may be supposed, but still there was no useless lamentation or weeping.

When he told them of these hard terms he could not refrain from weeping bitterly, and wailing and lamentation arose all round him.
I had therefore no other resource but to throw myself down, and pour out my soul in lamentation and prayer to God.
But let no cloud of lamentation be Where, on a warrior's grave, a lyre is hung.
A jubilant multitude surrounded him in life, and loud lamentation arose, when, at length, he fell a victim to envy and malice.
Hebrew lamentation of the most tenacious of races, at the passing sound of a Babylonian or a Ninevite voice?
As she approached her bench, she found it occupied by an individual who appeared to be playing a contributory part in the general lamentation of nature.
When he was laid beside the illustrious dead in Westminster Abbey, there arose far and wide a lamentation as of personal bereavement.
Great was the lamentation which then uprose, and sad was Farmer Gilbert to think that the unfortunate monk had died without repenting of his sins.
This lamentation comes from sheer envy,' said Hanslein, jestingly, 'because you are not created a duke.
Cowardice is a word of evil omen, if thou wilt, and meanness of spirit, and lamentation and mourning, and shamelessness. . . .
Both physicians returned a little after noon, and previously Mrs. Edgham had made her voice of lamentation heard again.
That passage contained a lamentation for the loss of monarchy to the Americans, after they had separated from Great Britain.