Sentence examples for pitiful sales from inspiring English sources

Yet again, however, the printed book has prevailed, as the largest UK book retailer, Waterstones, is to remove Kindle electronic readers from its stores due to "pitiful sales".

Alfa Romeo's ever-shifting plans for a return to the North American market, which it left in 1995 after decades of pitiful sales, poor reliability and strained dealer relations, form a boulevard of broken dreams.

When Novartis began business, a pitiful 7% of sales came from drugs on the market five years or less, compared with 25% or more for its top rivals.

I got the impression that even my invented sales figure was pitiful to him.

Why show people in these pitiful states?

Pity for a pitiful club.

Managing director James Daunt told The Bookseller: "Sales of Kindles continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back in more and more shops.

Be in no doubt, however, that a possible dividend of £50m would represent a pitiful sop, relative to the stakes latent in the sale for horseracing.

The pitiful inadequacy of politicians in reaction to these developments is shown in the paltry "policies" they propose: curbing the sale of alcohol, control of guns, further criminalisation of the excluded, yet more restrictive legislation.

"It's pitiful".

That's pitiful.