Sentence examples for pitiful over from inspiring English sources

It's one of many contributing factors to a pitiful over rate.

All right, he looks a pitiful mess over there just now.

There's a pitiful scandal over the book because she's pretty mean about her husband, but who could care?

(He also shot the Polish brothers' luxuriant-looking debut feature.) The lounge interiors have a tawdry fabulousness, with wall-to-wall tiny lights that shimmer like a rain of pitiful stars over the tables and pie-eyed patrons.

Downton and Ellison reduced the embarrassment a little by putting on 43 for the seventh wicket, but England's total of 180 in 96.4 overs was pitiful.

Each boy fumbled in his pocket, handing over pitiful amounts of cash.

In recent months the Maoist rebellion, inspired by the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru and led by two college-educated, upper caste Brahmins, has spiraled in intensity in this nation of stark poverty and beauty, where the snowy Himalayas tower majestically over pitiful scenes of hunger and want.

Chasing an unlikely 347 in the fourth innings to win, Lancashire lasted just 61 overs for a pitiful 109 all out to ensure Division One cricket will be played at Edgbaston in 2017.

For that they had to thank pacers Matt Henry and Joe Leach, who shared 15 wickets in the match and bowled unchanged through the second innings, an innings that lasted just 25 overs accumulating a pitiful 43 runs.

The dispute, he explained, was over a "pitiful mole-hill called Palestine".

That said, there's something pitiful about feeling nostalgic over the death of a favourite shop.