Sentence examples for pitifully small from inspiring English sources

The figures have become pitifully small.

Our celebrity haul pitifully small, we headed toward home.

Lucas described the proposed number as pitifully small.

This is of course a pitifully small sample.

The military force, pitifully small, is stationed in the desert to fight the expected Japanese invasion.

Sky's programme origination budget is pitifully small – £100m or so out of £4.8bn core subscription revenue.

Using his influence with the local police and courts, the mayor obtains an eviction order and pitifully small compensation payout.

At first glance, it looked pitifully small, the size of a native brook trout stream -- minus the brookies and hemlocks.

Although more local companies have explicit empowerment policies than have anti-AIDS policies, the share of capital held by black South Africans remains pitifully small.

The people who bear those risks live and work in a country where their deaths carry pitifully small consequences for employers or, it would seem, for the state.

Thomas writes in his memoir, "Mere confirmation, even to the Supreme Court, seemed pitifully small compensation for what had been done to me".