Use "pitiable" in a sentence

1. Where in the world did this benighted expression originate? We all have a sex, either male or female (with a few pitiable transgender exceptions which should, by the way, be referred to as transsexual)

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2. We were politely received by the Spaniards, who were greatly relieved by the termination of the war, and whose condition was pitiable

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3. One asks oneself, how long the pitiable animal had to live in these surroundings

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4. pitiable economy and poverty

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5. Tears welled up in the young scientists eyes as he looked into the pitiable face of the old black woman

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6. " The pleading in his voice was pitiable

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7. Loveless coupling with a stranger is pitiable, not something to excite jealousy

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8. The rhyming is more clumsy and pitiable than Roses Are Red

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9. She felt the juvenile part of his life was as pitiable as it was contemptible

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10. pitiable condition as many of them can hardly help it

11. That nothing is permanent in politics is best exemplified by the left’s pitiable condition

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12. So, won’t the least sought-after of the whores outscore all the Casanovas of the world put together; well, that’s in the lighter vein, but it was that experience which made me realize that it was stupid to generalize the sex-workers; the harlots in the hell-holes of cities’ red-light districts are a pitiable lot of gullible girls and hapless women forced to cater to the ever growing demand for paid sex there

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13. If her family had not helped her, she would have been in a pitiable state! He treats his wife as though he doesn’t love her, and isn’t even fond of her

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14. They have such pitiable fortune…” She coughed

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15. Thirdly, Kabir punished himself with three days of imprisonment because in his village there was someone in such a pitiable condition and he did not even know it

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16. This has led to a pitiable situation in which we now see our wine-carrying ceremony as inferior and a second fiddle

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17. Eating gruel _pour la galerie_ is a pitiable state to be reduced to--surely no lower depths of humiliation are conceivable

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18. "Why don't you take better care of your only son?" said the doctor grimly after he had seen Tussie that evening, who by that time was in a very pitiable condition

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19. "If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable

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20. men most pitiable" [1 Corinthians 15:18]

21. men most pitiable" (1 Corinthians 15:18)

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22. • “If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for

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23. • “If we have only hoped in Christ I this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for

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24. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable" (1 Corinthians 15:18)

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25. · “If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable” for there would be no resurrection, no Judgment Day, no second death, no eternal life

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26. 'After animadverting on the "rather pitiable way" in which one commentator after another has defined and repeated Lightfoot’s somewhat ambiguous words, taking him to assert, or making him assert, "that Gehenna was the abode of the damned, a place of eternal fire, and that there are endless examples to prove it," Dr

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27. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable

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28. The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful

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29. As the last thing on earth that his heart was to warm and soften to, it warmed and softened to this pitiable girl

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30. The rescue took thirty minutes, and the extricated captain was in a pitiable condition, being badly bruised and having swallowed a lot of salt water

31. In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless

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32. If the strength of your reciprocal attachment had failed, as between many people, and under many circumstances it naturally would during a four years' engagement, your situation would have been pitiable, indeed

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33. She received the news with resolute composure; made no observation on it, and at first shed no tears; but after a short time they would burst out, and for the rest of the day, she was in a state hardly less pitiable than when she first learnt to expect the event

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34. At least she never floundered in such a pitiable way

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35. Yes, he said; and, I may add, pitiable

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36. Although scarcely anyone seemed to notice it, the boy presented a truly pitiable spectacle

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37. Noirtier, seeing Barrois in this pitiable condition, showed by his looks all the various emotions of sorrow and sympathy which can animate the heart of man

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38. I have never seen any human being who appeared to be in such a pitiable fright, for his teeth were visibly chattering and he was shaking in every limb

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39. The unfortunate tutor was certainly in a state of pitiable agitation when we found him in his chambers

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40. "'He slouched out of the room, and half an hour afterwards left the house, leaving my father in a state of pitiable nervousness

41. No doubt he was in a pitiable position, but how could that be helped? The one thing the husband had a right to was to demand satisfaction with a weapon in his hand, and Vronsky was prepared for this at any minute

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42. Gradually, as time passed, his fears appeared to die away, and he had renewed his former habits, when a fresh event reduced him to the pitiable state of prostration in which he now lies

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43. And at the thought of how it would come, she seemed so pitiable to herself that tears came into her eyes, and she could not go on

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44. There was something that touched me as I read this letter, something pitiable in the reiterated appeals to bring Holmes

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45. On the contrary, when Kitty looked at him in society, as one sometimes looks at those one loves, trying to see him as if he were a stranger, so as to catch the impression he must make on others, she saw with a panic even of jealous fear that he was far indeed from being a pitiable figure, that he was very attractive with his fine breeding, his rather oldfashioned, reserved courtesy with women, his powerful figure, and striking, as she thought, and expressive face

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46. The conventional farm-folk of his imagination—personified in the newspaper-press by the pitiable dummy known as Hodge—were obliterated after a few days' residence

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47. The suppressed discontent of his manner was almost pitiable, and

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48. Will saw clearly enough the pitiable instances of long incubation producing no chick, and but for gratitude would have laughed at Casaubon, whose plodding application, rows of note-books, and small taper of learned theory exploring the tossed ruins of the world, seemed to enforce a moral entirely encouraging to Will's generous reliance on the intentions of the universe with regard to himself

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49. thought that there was a pitiable infirmity of will in Mr

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50. His experience was of that pitiable kind which shrinks from pity, and fears most of all that it should be known: it was that proud narrow sensitiveness which has not mass enough to spare for transformation into sympathy, and quivers thread-like in small currents of self-preoccupation or at best of an egoistic scrupulosity

51. But he was in gloomy rebellion against the fact that his quick apprehensiveness foreshadowed to him, and when his eyes fell on Rosamond's blighted face it seemed to him that he was the more pitiable of the two; for pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion

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52. The pitiable lot is that of the man who could not call himself a martyr even though he were to persuade himself that the men who stoned him were but ugly passions incarnate—who knows that he is stoned, not for professing the Right, but for not being the man he professed to be

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53. But Gollum was in a pitiable state, and Frodo's threat had quite

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54. For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing

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55. At this, Susannah’s Face fell and she lookt so pitiable that e’en a Hangman would have wept to see her

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56. The enterprise reported a final net loss of close to $70 million; the stock fell away to a low price of 7 1/8, and its largest bond issue was quoted at one time at a pitiable 15 cents on the dollar

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57. YUKI APPROACHED THE thirteen-year-old killer, who looked even younger and more pitiable now that his face was red from weeping

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58. It did not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it

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59. And despite his self-confidence and grumpy German sarcasm he was pitiable, with his hair smoothly brushed on the temples and sticking up in tufts behind

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60. It is pitiable and sad, and the whole army is in despair that this most important place has been wantonly abandoned

61. He was not the pitiable phantom who had haunted her in the Park of the Evangels and whom she had evoked with a certain tenderness after she had grown old, but the hateful phantom with his executioner’s frock coat and his hat held against his chest, whose thoughtless impertinence had disturbed her so much that she found it impossible not to think about him

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62. Still more pitiable in one way was the lot of the baby survivor, eleven-months-old Travers Allison, the only member of a family of four to survive the wreck

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63. He was in a pitiable state of reaction, with every nerve in a twitter

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64. I painted my face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a small slip of flesh-coloured plaster

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65. ” She raised her veil as she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal

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66. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced himself to tell his story

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67. I have never seen any human being who appeared to be in such a pitiable fright, for his teeth were visibly chattering, and he was shaking in every limb

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68. Dejah Thoris and I were thrown clear of him and fell upon the soft moss with scarcely a jar; but the poor beast was in a pitiable condition, not even being able to rise, although relieved of our weight

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69. It was a terrific, most pitiable, and maddening sight

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70. But the bird has a voice, and with plaintive cries will make known her fear; but the fear of this vast dumb brute of the sea, was chained up and enchanted in him; he had no voice, save that choking respiration through his spiracle, and this made the sight of him unspeakably pitiable; while still, in his amazing bulk, portcullis jaw, and omnipotent tail, there was enough to appal the stoutest man who so pitied

71. As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see

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72. Such overtures could not of course be expected to have any result; their only justification is to be sought in the pitiable frame of mind to which Napoleon was then reduced

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73. They presented a pitiable spectacle, and were quaking with terror, under the impression, apparently, that their last hour had come

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74. The staff encampment, according to the testimony of an eye-witness, presented a sad and pitiable spectacle

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75. “The Frenchwomen who had fled from Moscow to escape the vengeance of the Russians,” says Labaume, “and who had counted on perfect safety in our midst, presented a most pitiable spectacle

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76. But the nearer they got to the springs the oftener they met sick people; and their appearance seemed more pitiable than ever among the everyday conditions of prosperous German life

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77. All this, of course, had a pitiable effect on him

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78. When he learns the truth, and finds what a pitiable being is this injured, broken, half-insane creature, he will forgive her all the torment she has caused him

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79. It would be difficult to describe the pitiable scene that now followed

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80. As for the prince, he was indeed a pitiable object! He was not half awake yet, for one thing; he sat as though he were still dazed with sleep; he kept opening and shutting his mouth, and stared at Mosgliakoff as though he did not know him!

81. Though this gentleman had only one eye, having had the other knocked out owing, in his own words, to his valiant behaviour; and only one leg, the other having been broken in the same way owing to his valour; yet he had succeeded in winning all the kindly feeling of which Ustinya Fyodorovna was capable, and took the fullest advantage of it, and would probably have gone on for years living as her devoted satellite and toady if he had not finally drunk himself to death in the most pitiable way

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