Sentence examples for pitiful at from inspiring English sources

But wages are so pitiful at around £60 per month that workers are currently risking their lives in protests to fight for more.

Newcastle's defending was pitiful at times and they took a battering.

That final dismal and desultory line, nothing more than a light dusting at best and pitiful sprinkle at worst, is accompanied by a horrifying moment of shamefaced revelation: you've fucked it again.

They entered today's game against the Jets at Giants Stadium with fresh memories from that pitiful performance at Cincinnati two weeks ago where Corey Dillon and the then-without-a-victory Bengals ran under, over and through them in a 31-21 Denver loss.

Their net worth averages a whopping £933,563 per person versus a pitiful £3,420 at the bottom.

I could not blame the "guaro" for my pitiful attempts at dancing, only a lack of co-ordination.

The man, a pitiful animal at the mercy of his appetites (he travels due south after the neck and ear; she keeps talking), is her plaything.

Yet much of the enmity towards him stems from his pitiful cheating at the 2002 World Cup, when he got Turkey's Hakan Unsal sent off.

The obvious question is why hunky John bothers with pitiful Alma at all, so real chemistry between the two characters is crucial.

The 1-0 home defeat against champions elect Everton was hardly unexpected, but it would be the pitiful effort at Selhurst Park that truly rubber-stamped Villa's fate.

Against that background the British response – accepting fewer than 5,000 Syrian refugees since the conflict began four years ago – is pitiful, especially at a time when Germany is preparing to receive 800,000 asylum applications.