Sentence examples for pitiful with from inspiring English sources

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight".

He was as brilliant with the ball as England were pitiful with the bat.

"This seemed, even at the time, a pitiful excuse, and seems the more pitiful with hindsight," Barnes writes.

The production values were pitiful, with the professor displaying photos too small to see of her gumboot dancing time in South Africa or gesticulating like an inexperienced weatherman trying to point to the correct area on a map.

Giles's own Rajasthani laal maas is "equally thin and pitiful", with a cold shank bone protruding from it: and sauce of "rank acidity… a mouthful was all I could bear".

Lowe's first big stores looked "pitiful," with narrow aisles and dark floors, says Bridgeford.

I don't want to be pushing a shopping cart around with black plastic bags filled with my last pitiful possessions with nothing to do all day but sit and stare and recall the good times.

You see some of the most pitiful people with this disease – it's awful.

They are running a pitiful trailer with people saying what country they are going to be following and why.

In one section a healthy-looking woman walks past two pitiful waifs with apparent indifference, and then she does so again.

Government has tried vainly to address the wealth gap, but its efforts are pitiful, compared with the extravagant rewards distributed upon its favourites by the free market.