Sentence examples for a pitiful state from inspiring English sources

"We found the country in a pitiful state".

Wolves were in a pitiful state in 1986.

"Our emergency services are in a pitiful state," he told the newspaper.

Peace is holding in troubled north of the country, but the economy there remains in a pitiful state.

By the time Rodin moved in, the rocaille-style mansion, which sits in the garden completely detached, like a real chateau, was in a pitiful state.

The seven men, who have been in ISI custody since being acquitted by an antiterrorism court in 2010, appeared in court in a pitiful state, and looked gravely ill.

I know what's going to happen, the neurologist knows what's going to happen and I'd just rather avoid for myself and for the family seeing myself in a fairly pitiful state".

The BUAV says its members infiltrated labs at Imperial, which led them to discover rats wriggling during operations in which they were supposed to be anaesthetised, technicians decapitating baby rats with scissors, and mice kept in an emaciated and "pitiful state".

But unlike the Prince's conservative tastes in architecture, the Carbuncle Cup is not reactionary to architectural progress, but rather a reminder of the pitiful state of oversight of new architecture in Britain.

And, in her next children's-books column, she, in turn, vindicated him, lamenting the pitiful state of a literature "careful never to approach the child except in a childlike manner.

Ternovskiy also has reason to be skeptical of the Kremlin's recent interest in grooming intellectual talent, given the exodus of scientists from the country — by 2002, more than half a million had left — and the pitiful state of Russia's intelligentsia since the fall of Communism.