How to Use "lamentation" with Example Sentences

1. But the lamentation of vanity can be false modesty .

2. Lamentation is an activity we would prefer to avoid .

3. Hardly a day passes without public lamentation about the paucity of leadership in the western democracies .

4. " Alas , child , it is not only that I cannot see - I can see , nothing , nothing , " said the grandmother in a voice of lamentation .

5. The young man had often heard him sing the poem of lamentation that he made , but could only remember that it was " very mournful , " and that he called her " beauty of all beauties . "