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"Pitiful" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The pitiful sight moved us to tears.
The little girl, deeply moved by the old man's pitiful story, burst into tears.
The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl.
He's unlucky to a pitiful extent.
That's pitiful ... don't put on such a death-bed voice from just a body slam.
Many fine minds have no use for literature. In pitiful blindness, they say, "It's not real."
That was pitiful.
With pitiful clothing and a handful of bills with him, an old man asked with quavering voice whether he could pay his bills here.
This is pitiful!
Three more / fierce Eurus from the deep sea dashed ashore / on quicks and shallows, pitiful to view, / and round them heaped the sandbanks.
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Scotland has a pitiful climate.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
‘She followed ’em, cryin’ pitiful, to the old boat on the Wall[.]’
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