Sentence examples for pitiful sounds from inspiring English sources

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The child, wearing a sweater and vest but no shoes, was making faint, pitiful sounds: eh, eh.

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"They fell silent -- and the whole pitiful sound came back to him.

On the way back to Siem Reap, they hear a pitiful yelping sound and discover two mongrel dogs stuck together.

As Tyrone started whining about how, without The Acme Medallion of Power! [Fanfare], the challenge would have been "much more competitive," the pitiful excuse sounded even more incredibly lame in the cold light of Council.

Sounds pitiful, but that's big growth considering the personal-care market as a whole sank 5.1% last year, according to Information Resources Inc.

That might sound pitiful, until you drill down and discover that over the same period the average mutual fund investor’s return was an even more paltry 1.68%, according to Morningstar.

That sounds pretty pitiful, but let's take it at face value for a moment.

Almost every song I wrote and performed throughout junior and senior high was about loving someone who didn't love me back, and while it sounds quite pitiful now, these tunes made me quite popular among the girls in school.

The Marcha Real, by contrast, sounded downright pitiful.

"If we arrest, we open ourselves to a lawsuit," said Sergeant Dave Morgenstern, of the Sanford Police Department, presumably unaware of how pitiful (and pitiless) that sounded.

That – with an added jab at the cabinet's "pitiful" funk – doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement coming down the slipway.

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