Sentence examples for pitiful to from inspiring English sources

Pitiful to watch and utterly disgraceful.

He seemed very pitiful to me, and very desirable.

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

It was pitiful to hear the children crying all night in the wet waggons for water and food.

Four years ago England were the masters of the rugby universe, and the decline has been pitiful to watch.

White racism, which I used to take so seriously, came, more and more, to seem childish and pitiful to me.

So now it resorts to pitiful efforts to scare them.

Drug decriminalisation is a policy they've quietly backed for a while, but choosing to trumpet it now feels like a pitiful attempt to appeal to young voters – the group most likely to believe drug laws should be liberalised.

Many will turn to alcoholism and drug misuse as a pitiful means to get to the end of the day in one piece.

I regularly umpire U13 games as a part-time coach/manager and it is just pitiful listening to teenagers trying to ape their elders on this.

To put things in perspective, the 2002 Disco has such a pitiful power-to-weight ratio that it's nearly dead equal to that of the fuel-sipping Honda Insight, a hybrid, gasoline-electric car not exactly built for speed.