Sentence examples for in a pitiful from inspiring English sources
Rights group Amnesty International has criticised the world's richest nations for taking in a "pitiful" number of Syria's most vulnerable refugees.
"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.
Or compiling videos in a pitiful attempt to rationalise their childishness.
And, mostly, they engage in a pitiful, contemptuous subsequent orgy of guilt and recrimination.
We exist in such a pitiful dichotomy in this country.
The Soviet dictator did not dare face the truth, because the Red Army was still in such a pitiful state after the purges and the neglect of his own crony, Marshal Voroshilov.
For example, in July 2017, Japan dropped three points in broadband ranking to No. 13 while, the United States sat not-so-pretty at No. 9. Singapore continues to dominate global broadband speeds, while Norway offers the fastest mobile connections (the U.S. comes in at a pitiful No. 46 and dropping).
Brooks-in-despair is a pitiful sight, and one can't help but sympathize.
The U.S. and Canada consume nearly 300,000 milligrams per pain-related death from these causes, compared to less than 1,300 mg in China, 720 mg in India, 2,350 mg in Mexico, 450 mg in Uganda and a pitiful 47 mg in Haiti.
