Lamentations is an English word with synonyms like book. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lamentations meaning
plural of lamentation
Synonyms of Lamentations
Using Lamentations
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of lamentation
- Useful related words include: book of lamentations, book.
- In the example corpus, lamentations often appears in combinations such as: the lamentations, lamentations of, lamentations about.
Context around Lamentations
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lamentations
- In this selection, "lamentations" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, recent, protagonist, wailing, continue, across and start stand out and add context to how "lamentations" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the lamentations on the and and wailing lamentations across the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lamentations" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lamentations
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gnashing of teeth and wailing lamentations across the land. (9 words)
And the lamentations on the left are surely justified. (9 words)
The lamentations of the youth are genuine and difficult to argue against. (12 words)
Our protagonist, Lamentations – so named to remind her of the sin of having been born to a prostitute – finds herself on the run from an early 17-century settlement in America, which has been struck by famine and disease. (39 words)
The federal government has stated that there is no going back in the removal of subsidy on petroleum products, while electricity distribution companies (DisCos) pay deaf ears to the lamentations of Nigerians at this Covid-19 pandemic period. (38 words)
On the other hand, his students at the Kulani Correctional Facility, an all-male prison located about 20 miles south of Hilo, can instantly relate to Augustine’s lamentations, a University of Hawai‘i press release said. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Faced with these demanding mega-trends, it felt embarrassing to read recent lamentations about Brian Maule’s Le Chardon d’Or.
Our protagonist, Lamentations – so named to remind her of the sin of having been born to a prostitute – finds herself on the run from an early 17-century settlement in America, which has been struck by famine and disease.
The lamentations continue as electorate share their views that, the Council of Ulama should subject the candidates to scrutiny and give each a fair hearing.
Another economist at Lotus Beta Analytics, Shadrach Israel, said the government should be ready to hear more lamentations from the already impoverished citizens.
Gone were the lamentations about his age and electability that plagued the party just over a month ago.
Gnashing of teeth and wailing lamentations across the land.
The federal government has stated that there is no going back in the removal of subsidy on petroleum products, while electricity distribution companies (DisCos) pay deaf ears to the lamentations of Nigerians at this Covid-19 pandemic period.
The lamentations of the youth are genuine and difficult to argue against.
On the other hand, his students at the Kulani Correctional Facility, an all-male prison located about 20 miles south of Hilo, can instantly relate to Augustine’s lamentations, a University of Hawai‘i press release said.
The day-after lamentations, the coulda, woulda, shouldas … those are all in the past.
And the lamentations on the left are surely justified.
As for the mainstream opposition and the Third Forcers, those who seek to replace them, other than condemnations, lamentations, and alarmist accusations, we are yet to see any definitive programs of action.
Before long, lamentations start to echo around us and we venture further down to come face to face with these grievers.
The conscious decision of today’s black leadership to ignore the teachings and lamentations of a radicalized King can only be considered an inexcusable betrayal of his most powerful moments as a race leader.
This is Fark, so I'm waiting for the lamentations that the church wasn't also occupied at the time.
For instance, the lamentations of Isis and Nephthys for their dead brother may represent an early tradition of ritualized mourning.
Lamentations was certified Gold in Canada. citation Opeth was scheduled to perform in Jordan without a crew due to the fear of terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
Midrash Rabba (Lamentations Rabba), section 3 In another story, Hadrian got down from his chariot and bowed to a Jewish girl afflicted with leprosy.
Psalms 79:6-7 is recited in both Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, plus Lamentations 3:66 among Ashkenazim.
The brothers kill each other in single combat, and the original ending of the play consisted of lamentations for the dead brothers.
Common combinations with lamentations
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lamentations 8×
- lamentations of 5×
- lamentations about 2×