Sentence examples similar to a pathetic try from inspiring English sources
Restaurant staff tried to seat the man in a "pathetic attempt to deescalate the situation," Al-Nahi wrote.
It opened at the Paramount last night.As an isolated observation of a middle-aged man's pathetic try to get a little love from a sensitive young woman of a sort that he has evidently never known, this major component of the picture has considerable warmth and sympathy.
At a distance, users seem a tad pathetic trying to trigger positive feedback from the shoe.
At his final black-tie dinner as president with the White House press corps, Mr. Clinton presented a video that showed a pathetic president trying mightily to remain relevant.
Sorry, I know it's pathetic trying to joke my way out of this, but however liberal a man thinks he is, there is still part of him that is afraid of the feelings that he tries to suppress.
And seeing his parents, Mrs. Campos so sad and so pathetic, trying to smile at me, hugging me, and Steve, like we were Scoot's best friends.
But the government's response has been pathetic: trying to nudge supermarkets towards developing plastic-free aisles and "supporting" the development of a free water refill network while saying absolutely nothing about how.
Not because it looks pathetic, trying to wriggle out of your own catastrophe by pointing to something that happened to someone else 10 years since.
It just seems pathetic, trying to save face with humor.
This scrubbing-out was understood to be a pathetic story about a fringe sector taking ridiculous measures to try to preserve its counter-reality.
