Sentence examples for pathetically small from inspiring English sources

Opera has a pathetically small pass rate.

I think, in retrospect, they were pretty pathetically small.

Yet the sums involved are pathetically small beer for Western Governments.

On his return, in Karachi, a pathetically small crowd of supporters waited to see him.

"Most of our sales are to the Pacific rim," he says, "and a pathetically small fraction to the UK".

Unions were swift to attack the plans, dismissing it as "a pathetically small amount" to demand from the banks.

Voter turnout is pathetically low.

But it has attracted pathetically little attention.

But that's a pathetically low benchmark.

But even the national average is pathetically low.

What's needed, according to the conventional wisdom, are pathetically shitty small-ball proposals things like marginally higher taxes for millionaires or "chained CPI" accounting that slows the rate of growth of some entitlement spending.