How To Use Pitifully In A Sentence
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No doubt the crowd was piqued by the post-game smack-talking between the players, who woofed at each other jaw-to-jaw with a pitifully comic fervor reminiscent of weigh-ins at a heavyweight championship bout.
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Others (pardon me in tracing the institutions of learning and asserting that they were called phantasm, prejudice and blasphemy) have been heralding their pitifully and destructively ignorant doctrine, that the 'Africans spring of the monkey species;' that 'they became black from Ham, who had a curse from his father, Noah.'
Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why?
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Laughing and joking, the dozen hungry, breakfastless girls hurried into their coats and veils, seized their pitifully small allotment of doughnuts and cookies, and boisterously climbed aboard the autos waiting for them.
Tabitha's Vacation
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The same pitifully small group of students was shifted from classroom to classroom, with costume changes in between.
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She was trying to straighten an anorak around Sonja's pitifully slight frame.
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wages were pitifully low, particularly the wages of women
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The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
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Just in case you still think Jones is just some no-name boffin toiling pitifully in academia's climate change coal mines, one file in the exposed CRU records reveals that he has collected 13.7 million in grants since 1990.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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Man, the latest of the ephemera, is pitifully a creature of temperature, strutting his brief day on the thermometer.
THE HUMAN DRIFT
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He was crying most pitifully, and as they rode off he flew up high in the air and his pitiful "caw" became fainter and fainter till at they heard it no more.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
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So pitifully did she plead that the Barongrew calm and decided to have mercy on her.
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He was crying most pitifully, and as they rode off he flew up high in the air and his pitiful "caw" became fainter and fainter till at last they heard it no more.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux
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Or maybe with our arthritic fingers we'll be texting each other pitifully.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old surveillance cat mewed pitifully on the way.
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In the absence of the high-flying wire-assisted stunts of his later pictures, he looks pitifully immature, even mortal.
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The fence, now electrified no longer and partially nonexistent, sagged pitifully.
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His wages were pitifully inadequate for the needs of his growing family.
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The cat started meowing pitifully outside the doctor's door.
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He glanced at his wife - a quick, despondent peek - and then looked at me pitifully.
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His trousers were rolled up; his knees and shins were pitifully thin.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ridiculous and doomed attempt to solicit someone to commit a crime, for example, is still criminal solicitation; a pitifully executed attempt at fraud is still fraud.
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Tex, her golden retriever, whined pitifully in the backseat, breathing the smell of dog food on the back of her neck.
T2®: THE FUTURE WAR
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She climbed over the top end of the bed, her nightshirt dragging pitifully on the floor.
Uprising
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State help for the mentally handicapped is pitifully inadequate.
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The fee is pitifully low.
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Twice GHA opted to kick at goal but both efforts by Noonan fell pitifully short.
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So pitifully did she plead that the Barongrew calm and decided to have mercy on her.
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The mew of a hungry cat drifts pitifully from the nearby fish stall.
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Anyone who doubts me on this would only need to have seen me at 7.15 this morning, mewling pitifully to an empty room that I must have had bad sushi last night and was dying, dying, dying.
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His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
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Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence.
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It was a ragged, unkempt pony, pitifully poor and very footsore, at first sight, an absolute "moke"; but a second glance showed colossal round ribs, square hips, and a great length of rein, the rest hidden beneath a wealth of loose hair.
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories
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The cat started meowing pitifully outside the doctor's door.
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If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
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If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
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My grandfather, who had badly sprained his ankle only a week before while getting a lesson in baile tropical out on the patio with Esperanza´s sister, and had been getting around with a cane, was now sitting on the edge of Eula´s bed, his head and hands leaning heavily on the curved handle, sobbing pitifully.
Burying Eula - A Day Of The Dead Story
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His legs were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk.
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The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room.
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His trousers were rolled up; his knees and shins were pitifully thin.
Times, Sunday Times
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He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
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Possibly because of will see an old person, i feel pitifully.
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Still only six years old, his little body slowly became pitifully deformed as his tuberculosis spread.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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Marechal, beholding this, passed suddenly from unbelief to perfect faith in aerostatics and in the capacity of the human mind, fell on his knees, and, with his eyes bathed in tears, moaned out pitifully the words,
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,it's called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love.
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As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
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Master Doctor, seeing himselfe to bee in such an abhominable stinking place, laboured with all his utmost endevour, to get himself released thence: but the more he contended and strove for getting forth, he plunged himselfe the further in, being most pitifully myred from head to foot, sighing and sorrowing extraordinarily, because much of the foule water entred in at his mouth.
The Decameron
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The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters.
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Despite their pitifully limited numbers they threw down an inspiring challenge to the might of the autocratic regime.
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Naturally, he'd always shied away from emotional attachments, especially romantic ones, since love was something he knew pitifully little about.
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Third, stay in the book business long enough to change the market dynamic and plow all those pitifully puny stores under.
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She pitifully looked at me, with the eyes in which the hot tears stood.
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Opening the prosecution case today, Gerard Elias QC said the two double killings ammounted to what he called merciless executions for pitifully small gain.
WalesOnline - Home
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Rob Schneider, whose Saturday Night Live heyday seems a pitifully distant memory right about now, stars as the title schlub, a fussy nerd who somehow landed a gorgeous Mexican-American bride the innocuous Claudia Bassols after a six-week courtship.
Thursday TV in Review: Rotten Rob, Finder, Person of Interest and More
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He whines pitifully, a pout forming his expression.
