Sentence examples for pitiable I from inspiring English sources

If that's not pitiable, I don't know what is.

"As a woman living with a disability I know I am neither brave nor pitiable; I am simply doing my best to live a full life with the hand I have been dealt".

This was the pitiable truth I had to embrace.

She wouldn't let go, tugging me toward the inner depths of her brothel -- but she looked so young and pitiable that I couldn't help thinking that she really wanted me to tug her away.

Playing on Megan's susceptibility to underdogs, Josh's creators endowed him with a pitiable bio: "when I was 7 my dad left me and my mom and my older brother and my newborn brother... poor mom yeah she had such a hard time... finding work to pay for us after he left".

Not long ago, teaching a course in the novella to undergrads, I was apparently the only one in the classroom who felt there was anything odd or untoward when a shy, soft-spoken sophomore raised her hand to offer this assessment of Edith Wharton's put-upon and pitiable hero Ethan Frome: "I think Ethan's a total asshole".

After I made several pitiable attempts to break free, it became clear that in order to give up smoking, I was going to have to give up being such a smart aleck.

None of that pitiable look-at-me-and-what-I-can-afford madness.

This was Mrs VA's day to shine, from the hilarious, pitiable surprise of: "Oh Nelson… I thought you didn't believe in gifts" to the carnal longing on her face when he'd wiped the floor with the unlucky man who tried to serve them champagne.

I found a few pitiable Democratic survivors hiding in a boarded-up house.

As for that pitiable fourth-year grad student in Texas, I hope he gets another chance.