Sentence examples for they were pitiful from inspiring English sources

They were pitiful, soulless words thrown at me like scraps to a desperate pigeon.

But what did work, is that the page itself never turned my words away -- no matter if they were pitiful or brave, dark or light, caddy or compassionate, fearful or funny.

"They're pitiful, helpless giants," said Ronald Chernow, the author of "Titan," a biography of Rockefeller.

"They're pitiful," said the Republican, who did not want to be identified because he did not want the president to be angry at him.

Yes, they're pitiful, they're bonkers, and some are under the influence, but they're also mesmerizing.

"The interfaces were pitiful, and they involved a lot of specialised equipment.

"The interfaces were pitiful, and they involved a lot of specialized equipment.

My attempts at reassurance were pitiful.

To the Jews, the Marranos were pitiful martyrs.

"When you look at how little they give, it's pitiful," he says about law firm giving as a whole.

Blunden wrote: "They were more pitiful because they were only boys drafted from nice homes in a nice country knowing nothing about Europe, not tough like Australians, or shrewd like the French or irreducibly stubborn like the English.