Sentence examples for pitiful for having from inspiring English sources

Not long ago, Priceline was a goner, relegated to the unprofitable dot-com trash heap and looking rather pitiful for having even tried to compete with an airline industry worth billions.

"Being able to look up my salary, would he think I was some cheapskate for having such a pitiful car?

Although I'm nowhere near that rich and pitiful, I have gotten used to having things.

How funny that someone thought to preserve them; how pitiful that they've come to symbolise all that Carpenter stood for.

"It's pitiful that you have to ask".

The results are pitiful: only 331 have been relocated since September.

She shoots me a pitiful look that has no doubt been practised on many tourists: "7.01am".

Our sex life was pitiful and he had just been fired from his own company.

It was inspired by and written as a response to a statement made by radio disc jockey Moohah Williams, who had nicknamed Redding "Mr. Pitiful" for sounding pitiful when singing ballads.

But Mr. Lautenberg said it was "pitiful" for Mr. Torricelli to publicly urge Mr. Gore to concede at a time when the election had not yet been decided.

Have you seen the pitiful new poem Harold Pinter has written for the LRB? Tout Londres rit!