Sentence examples for pitiful looking from inspiring English sources

In 1996, Baffert picked out a colt so narrowly built and pitiful looking that Pegram asked "What's wrong, does he have cancer?" when told he cost just $17,000.

My little business plan said we needed £200,000 to get going - its pitiful looking back at it - and I put up half of it by selling my house in London.

Sadly, I do find a lot of pitiful looking pitties while patrolling, as well.

"When he arrived he hadn't had any sleep for 48 hours and was the most pitiful looking man I ever saw," Clara White told a reporter in 1942 about a St .Petersburg, Florida, man who, after his dog's death, put the animal in his car and drove straight to the cemetery.

When the dish rags and washcloths are too pitiful looking to be used for their intended purpose anymore, they become cleaning rags.

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

Mr. Held's full-bodied sound combined with his haggard, pitiful look made his Wozzeck seem especially delusional and dangerous.

"When I started basically spending my time trying to make the beginning of a hamburger, they would give me a pitiful look, as if to say, You have completely degraded yourself".

"If I said or did something that made her proud she would sigh and then get this pitiful look and say, 'Too bad you'll never have kids to share this with.' And then when I did or said something she didn't like, she would say, 'Well it's a good thing you're never having kids, you're too selfish.' " In self-defense, Gail "made a deal with Mom".

He responds with a pitiful look: "Come on!

When that wedding guest gave me that pitiful look, I could almost sense her scanning me for some fault.