Sentence examples for pathetic by from inspiring English sources

Here, that pompous machismo is made pathetic by age.

Britain's efforts to recoup taxes are pathetic by comparison.

My own winter preparations seem pathetic by comparison.

That makes Darwin's distant second seem a bit pathetic by comparison.

Job creation in the post-2001 recovery was pathetic by Clinton-era standards; wages barely kept up with inflation.

But the practice has been condemned as "pathetic" by a select committee chair who accused the companies of trying "manipulate the parliamentary process".

That was a pathetic miss by Lee Dong-Gook.

Given the pathetic performance by Sanchez this year, Tebow really couldn't be much worse.

But Collinsworth saw incompetence, not skill: "That's a pathetic effort by the Eagles.

"I know my body is going to be in pathetic shape by the time I'm done," she said.

This is a pathetic attempt by the coalition to create a smokescreen around today's serious economic issues.