Sentence examples for a wave of pity from inspiring English sources

As I was being helped into a waiting taxi, I felt a wave of pity for the forlorn opera buff and said to the manager, "Find that man, and give him my ticket".

As many lesser stony-countenanced old men with hearts of gold in children's literature before him, a wave of pity moves him to take her in and make Neverfell his apprentice.

As if realizing this himself, adult Scrooge, "with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character," feels a new wave of pity for his child self — and, with it, regret for how, the previous day, he had chased away a child who was singing Christmas carols at his door.

As if realizing this himself, adult Scrooge, "with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character," feels a new wave of pity for his child self and, with it, regret for how, the previous day, he had chased away a child who was singing Christmas carols at his door.

In a wave of desperation and self-pity, you make your way to the computer and find yourself cruising the Net.

Britain was not swept to war on a wave of popular enthusiasm for "little Belgium", wrote Niall Ferguson in The Pity of War.

Roosten brightened and sent a relieved half wave in the direction of the whoop, and the awkwardness of this gesture, the way it inadvertently revealed how terrified he was, endeared him to the crowd that seconds before had been ready to mock him, and someone else pity-whooped, and Roosten smiled a big loopy grin, which caused a wave of mercy-cheers.

A result was a wave of refugees.

They unleashed a wave of social mobility.

Both rode a wave of fiscal conservativism.

A wave of bank failures broke late in 1930.