Wondering how to use Lamentation in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as lament or reflection.
Lamentation meaning
- The act of lamenting.
- A sorrowful cry; a lament.
- Specifically, mourning.
Synonyms of Lamentation
Using Lamentation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of lamenting. | A sorrowful cry; a lament. | Specifically, mourning.
- Useful related words include: lament, reflection, manifestation, expression.
- In the example corpus, lamentation often appears in combinations such as: the lamentation, lamentation of, lamentation from.
Context around Lamentation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lamentation
- In this selection, "lamentation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grievance, wailing and polyphonic stand out and add context to how "lamentation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a polyphonic lamentation from david and and grievance lamentation and despair. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lamentation" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lamentation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It ends with the lamentation of Josiah’s death. (9 words)
His crux of his lamentation was that people were ‘politicizing’ the killings. (12 words)
The audience returned to its usual configuration: grief and grievance, lamentation and despair. (13 words)
Against this background, it is strange to read an article by one Ope Banwo bemoaning what he called lamentation by Air Peace over the ongoing price war by foreign airlines to undermine its newly launched operations on the Lagos-London route. (41 words)
The climax of the Enkōmia comes during the third stásis, with the antiphon "Ō glyký mou Éar", a lamentation of the Virgin for her dead Child ("O, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty gone?"). (38 words)
Okechukwu reacted when he was confronted by journalists in Enugu over the successful presidential declaration of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election, where the former vice president made the lamentation over the killings. (36 words)
Example sentences (13)
It was lamentation from the customers as they were yet to be attended to as of 1:45pm.
The audience returned to its usual configuration: grief and grievance, lamentation and despair.
Against this background, it is strange to read an article by one Ope Banwo bemoaning what he called lamentation by Air Peace over the ongoing price war by foreign airlines to undermine its newly launched operations on the Lagos-London route.
By the end of his lamentation, he almost sounded like a scorned bettor: “And that was a game Kentucky should’ve won.
His crux of his lamentation was that people were ‘politicizing’ the killings.
In the parlance of Maguindanaon and other vernaculars, ‘palendag’ literally means ‘wailing,’ ‘lamentation’ and ‘crying for grief’.
It ends with the lamentation of Josiah’s death.
Okechukwu reacted when he was confronted by journalists in Enugu over the successful presidential declaration of His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar for the 2019 presidential election, where the former vice president made the lamentation over the killings.
When I told Madam Favour what happened, she shouted at me and asked me to always satisfy my customers because she needed money,” Gift recalled in lamentation.
His Absalon fili mi is a polyphonic lamentation from David's perspective on the death of his son.
In the Slavic practice, at the end of Vespers, Compline is immediately served, featuring a special Canon of the Crucifixion of our Lord and the Lamentation of the Most Holy Theotokos by Symeon the Logothete.
The climax of the Enkōmia comes during the third stásis, with the antiphon "Ō glyký mou Éar", a lamentation of the Virgin for her dead Child ("O, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty gone?").
Where he maketh great lamentation for his wrongfull imprisonment, wishing death to end his daies: which in my iudgement doth greatly accord with that in the Testament of Love.
Common combinations with lamentation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lamentation 3×
- lamentation of 3×
- lamentation from 2×
- lamentation and 2×
- his lamentation 2×