Lamentable has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | "If any of you survive this fatal night and return to Jamaica tell the admiral that I was in search of the pirate when this lamentable occurrence took place; tell him I hope I have always done my duty, and that I-." | |
| 2. | That was lamentable. | |
| 3. | And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? |