Sentence examples for make pitiful from inspiring English sources

His letters, mostly unanswered, make pitiful reading.

As much as I hated causing them to make pitiful mewling noises it was really just three house cats being petulant about a closed door and everything was going to be OK.

Several made pitiful attempts to escape.

The sweet young things lived in a dormitory, sort of a Wild West sorority house, while the rugged yet gentle giants who had imported them cut trees by day and made pitiful attempts at table manners by night.

With much contemporary political discourse making pitiful progress about how to address the north-south divide, our politicians could do worse than to look to the Queen's example as someone who has helped to keep all parts of the country together.

("I have more just cause to make a pitiful defense of poor Poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning, is fallen to be the laughing stock of children," Sidney began the "Defense".

"They make a pitiful performance," Mr. Conable said.

The cough is often so hard and so persistent that children make a pitiful "whooping" sound.

Based on last year's cash-flow figures the deal will make a pitiful 5.6% return on capital, assuming no tax is paid.

Thirty-four of the men, who make a pitiful living mining and breaking stones, were executed with a bullet to the head; two were beheaded; all were non-Muslims.Ten days earlier in the same remote part of Kenya gunmen flagged down an early-morning bus.

"I didn't want this nightmare to take over my life and make me pitiful or bitter," she would say later.