Sentence examples for pitiful terms from inspiring English sources
The reply described the plight of the Kaifeng Jews in pitiful terms.
Other than this reform the budget was boring, and the sums of money involved, were, in budget terms, pitiful.
With Orwell a keen follower of Dickens's habit of making characters' internal weaknesses manifest in their appearance, they're a pitiful bunch in physical terms, too.
His latest book is on the politics of presidential transitions from the perspective of leaving administrations: "Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Terms".
British Prime Minister Theresa May has paid lip service to improving the situation, but in real terms has pledged a pitiful amount of money towards it.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has paid lip service to improving the situation, but in real terms has pledged a pitiful amount of money towards it.
Of all the industrialized nations, Japan ranks by far the lowest in terms of gender equality a somewhat pitiful 105 out of 136.
We ordinary Americans believe in your abilities and, like you, we are thinking in terms of months and years, not in the pitiful language of hourly sound bites or weekly deadlines.
In the short term, artists are complaining that their streaming royalties are pitiful and that these online services seem to calculate royalties in ways that are opaque even by the black magic accounting standards of the music business.
However, in terms of our bargaining power over digital privacy rights, we have been reduced to a pitiful, unenviable position in which we can only hope and trust that those in power will treat our information with respect.
