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How to use piteous in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word piteous? Here are some examples.

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Ryan inquired with false innocence, in a particularly piteous attempt to play dumb.
The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway.
So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.
Your piteous tribe has committed more to the eternal life and bliss after death then your life here and now.
This same mother will also tell you not to cut the tree, for it will bleed real blood during the night and cry out with a piteous wail.
As the end neared, she lapsed into a semi-consciousness of raving and then piteous wailing.
She had a hundred years experience when you were still a piteous little child!
The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous.
He was crying into his lovely black feathers a piteous sound that tore at Star's heart.
He'd long forgotten most of the words of this piteous lament, but that was no obstacle.
With this super warm and cozy collar kids will be able to play, and you won't be afraid to find the scarf trampled and in a piteous state.
Boromir's attempted martyrdom was a bit self piteous to be sympathetic.
There isn't a hint of jousting, sacred quests or piteous damsels.
She twisted her hands miserably, with a piteous expression on her face.
Your efforts never fail to leave me laughing at your piteous attempts.
The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous.
The piteous 11 per cent conviction rate has to be explained somehow.
She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one.
Tears and piteous pleas about getting up at 3.30am in Seattle to catch my first flight seemed unlikely to advance my cause.
This is the excuse, the crutch, the piteous and finally pathetic defense of Negrophiles unable or willing to face reality.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When, in 1704, the news of Blenheim oozed out, the king's grief was piteous to see.
There is something more piteous almost than soapless poverty in this application of feminine incapacity to literature.
The dog rose up to meet him, as piteous and indignant as a dumb beast can be.
Stryker turned upon him an expression at once ludicrous, piteous and hateful.
He would let her rest her head upon his breast and weep out her heartful of piteous sorrow once before she died.
He began shivering at this again, and his voice sank into a piteous quaver.
She remained kneeling by the chair, looking up at him with a most piteous face.
It is imperious and obedient, sincere and false, piteous and cruel, timid and bold.
If the whole affair had not been so piteous it would have seemed grotesque.
She was sobbing and crying like a child, but there was a more poignant, more piteous sound in the sobs.
The poor fellow gave a piteous moan, but still did not stir.
Are none to be gentle and kind, none to be piteous and forgiving?
He looked at her piteous face and his strength almost ebbed away.
This is strikingly shown by his piteous remark to them in jer.
The sun fell on the piteous things, disclosing their spots and the creases formed by the motions of the body.
In good sooth, he swore to t so movingly, twas quite piteous to hear him.
His face was worn and ashy, but his eyes burned with a piteous fire.
I beg you to pause and consider this girl's piteous condition.
So vehement and so piteous were the lamentations of Claudia that they drew tears from Roque's eyes, unused as they were to shed them on any occasion.
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