PITIFUL in a Sentence
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230 example sentences for PITIFUL, such as:
1. Her voice was tender, full of pity.
2. I saved her out of pity for her child.
3. He best can pity who has felt the worse.
4. A pity we can't find the guy who did it.
5. It's a pity that he didn't accept the job.
2. I saved her out of pity for her child.
3. He best can pity who has felt the worse.
4. A pity we can't find the guy who did it.
5. It's a pity that he didn't accept the job.
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Meanings and Examples of PITIFUL
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pitiful
a. bad; unfortunate
a. deserving or inciting pity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The two girls stood looking after the Zouave who was moving toward the group of elderly ladies in the corner, Scarlett defiant, Melanie with a look more pitiful than tears.
2 Well, she'd make up some pitiful story about a soldier in the hospital who needed it and Rhett need never know the truth.
3 The skeletons and corpses, flung helterskelter among their splintered caskets, lay exposed and so pitiful.
4 His old black face was as pitiful as a child's under its mother's disapproval, his dignity collapsed.
5 She wondered how he could jest so blithely with a rope about his neck and her pitiful circumstances before him.
6 A pitiful and tawdry love-affair.
7 She pitied herself that her romance should be pitiful; she sighed that in this colorless hour, to this austere self, it should seem tawdry.
8 No one big enough or pitiful enough to sacrifice for.
9 I've been forgetting that Main Street doesn't think it's in the least lonely and pitiful.
10 The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.
11 Neither grandmother nor I could go out in the storm, so Jake fed the chickens and brought in a pitiful contribution of eggs.
12 The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood, and he thought that he would have given his life for a revenge of seeing their faces in pitiful plights.
13 The poor victims of the sale, who had been brought up in one place together for years, gathered round the despairing old mother, whose agony was pitiful to see.
14 When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.
15 If it must be so, the country will have reason to tremble, when it remembers that the fate of nations is in the hands of One who is very pitiful, and of tender compassion.
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 It's a pity that he didn't accept the job.
2 This would be a pity if the Attorney were bluffing.
3 Her voice was tender, full of pity.
4 He best can pity who has felt the worse.
5 I felt great pity for the woman whose baby died.
6 It's a pity for me to see an old woman hobble away.
7 What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
8 I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
9 I saved her out of pity for her child.
10 He gave the panhandler a few coins out of pity.
11 She allowed herself only a few moments'indulgence in self - pity.
12 The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage.
13 A pity we can't find the guy who did it.
14 A fool attempting to be witty is an object of profoundest pity.
15 She knew that she was an object of pity among her friends.