Sentence examples for a pitiable from inspiring English sources

There are no plans to increase the carer's allowance, which, if you're eligible for it, is a pitiable £62.70 a week.

But many have a pitiable quality for their neglect.

Politically and economically Nasser had left me a pitiable legacy.

This morning the village was a pitiable scene.

The fence turned out to be nothing much, a pitiable chain-link job.

It is a pathetic little second-rate substitute for reality, a pitiable flight from life.

And a subplot about a pitiable Haitian refugee and her children is no laughing matter.

"I trained my binoculars and saw a pitiable scene," Captain LaRue remembered.

To his neighbors, Rodney Williams was a pitiable but harmless figure.

"It was a pitiable fight," Mr. Weitz said, taking up the story in a coffee shop.

Mr. Schlesinger was deriding this as a pitiable lack of political vision.