pity

How To Use pity In A Sentence

• There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong. The Times Literary Supplement
• All was coloured with admiration of his beauty and grace, and mingled with boundless pity for their sad overclouding and defeature! Thomas Wingfold, Curate
• Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
• She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
• Jones told her to be true, and exprest much pity and concern for him. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
• Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
• Some critics will accuse Duffy of acting as apologist for a campaign of violent repression, but this would scarcely be fair: “confronted by the sanctified savageries of the Tudor age, it would be a hard heart that withheld pity from the victims or felt no indignation against the perpetrators”. A Not so Bloody Mary ?
• Pity about the subterranean exhibition space.
• She often used the term pedal or pedalo-French slang for a homosexual-draping it with condescension, pity, and disapproval. Jezebel