Sentence examples for pathetic display from inspiring English sources

It is a pathetic display from two pretenders to leadership.

India went into lunch at 75 for 3 but then lost 7 for 25 in a pretty pathetic display.

I stood there, my hands wedged up under my cheekbones to catch the tears, mortified that you were witnessing such a pathetic display.

It was a pathetic display of inefficiency, ineffectiveness, and just plain bad service.

Then the conversation descended into a pathetic display of macho arrogance.

In a pathetic display last night in Tennessee the Jets were eliminated from the post season for the second straight year.

All the Delts were swarming the room now, expostulating over this disgusting display, this pathetic showing on the part of a pledge class that wasn't worthy of the name, and hands took hold of Benny and Chris, people shouting and jostling, the whinny of laughter, cries of "Gross!" and "Don't get any of that shit on me, man," the hands finding purchase at armpit and knee.

What we got was a scoreline that was as jaw-dropping as it was justified – and one of the most pathetic home displays anyone can remember.

Kansas wouldn't have survived their pathetic shooting displays against Purdue and NC State without the shot-blocking of Withey and perimeter defense of Releford, while Ohio State's backcourt duo of Craft and Smith makes life absolutely miserable for opposing scorers.

After the Yankees and Red Sox opened the season, in April, with a series of three-and-a-half-hour marathons at Fenway Park, the umpire Joe West publicly rebuked both teams for what he called a "pathetic and embarrassing" display, "a disgrace to the game".

The whole display is pathetic.