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Example sentences for: pitiful

How can you use “pitiful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

On the one hand, she's the pitiful victim of our hypocrisy and our unnecessary shame.
Here comes Miles, authoritatively quoting Diodorus, the Greek historian, who recorded (60-30BC) that “innocent women even swelled the ranks of pitiful slaves whose forced labour built the pyramids:
Most consumers, studies have shown, believe themselves impervious to the pitiful ploys of advertising.
They were pitiful even by microbial standards.
The Daily Star of Bangladesh paints the Iraqi crisis as a pitiful Iraq against a ruthless aggressor in an editorial Sunday, saying, " 'Defiance' of a despoiled country resonates with a total back-to-the-wall desperation."