Sentence examples for what pitiful from inspiring English sources

What pitiful knowledge I do have comes mostly from a children's book that belonged to my mother as a girl: Grammar Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf, which makes characters of such things as prepositions and pronouns (copies are to be found on abebooks.co.uk, and if you're a desperate parent, I recommend it, old-fashioned though it undoubtedly is).

A teen-age girl eating ice cream all alone, what a pitiful sight.

(What a pitiful thing the DC map of the world must be, with each country identified by nothing more than its legendary tool of aggression).

What a pitiful bit of kismet.

What a pitiful way to spend my day.

Artificial Intelligence Turned BOn Ross into a Terrifying Psychedelic Nightmare.

But what was truly pitiful was what he said, not how he said it.

"What a crazed, pitiful thing / She made of my mother!" Phèdre says of the goddess of love.

Whereas most consumer watchdogs investigate scams at the instigation of aggrieved parties, in Scam City presenter Conor Woodman, travels the world looking for trouble and – what's more pitiful – often fails to find it.

Expecting his brother, who escaped capture because James refused to turn him in, at least to lend him support, he sees the boy he once considered invincible for what he is — pitiful.

And what we saw was pitiful.