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Example sentences for: pitiful

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I spontaneously said to myself, "What a pitiful attempt at elegance!"
Since then, I have updated FRAMEWORK II to FRAMEWORK III to add, as they say in the trade, a few “bells and whistles,” and, because my present computer is configured with only 640,000 bytes of RAM (RandomAccess Memory) and can perform only a pitiful five zillion operations a second, I am planning to add RAM and memory to enable it to perform a few zillion more--or is that per millisecond or microsecond?
When the '60s veterans try to play some pitiful music, they are quickly drowned out by the frantic brainstorming of their corporate descendants.
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."
Someone has also wound up the Jack Kemp doll, which declares the 10 percent proposal "timid and pitiful."