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How to use piteously in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
The next minute you'll be crawling back under the covers and moaning piteously.
Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor.
I groan piteously, my stomach growling, echoing in the silence like a gunshot.
Young and old, they stand in corners, hands outstretched, mewing piteously.
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
The woman chewed the herbs for a while, as if mulling them over slowly, and then swallowed piteously.
Vanya is too scared to jump, and stays up there, cold and shaking until his mother comes to rescue him, whereupon he weeps piteously.
His voice broke piteously, but Bahzell only gazed down with flinty eyes, and something inside the landlord shriveled under their dreadful promise.
The wounded with the parching thirst of haemorrhage upon them called piteously for water.
The animal groaned piteously for hours, and the farmer wondered what to do.
Sometimes he makes poor choices and finds himself marooned atop the kitchen cabinets, mewling piteously in my direction.
Don't get me wrong: I was also piteously grateful that years of paying virtually everything I earned in rent were behind me.
Braemar is a very cold place, where they snigger piteously whenever a flake and a half brings the South-east to a standstill.
The cat meowed piteously and followed her throughout the room.
And what about Edmonton city council members who tirelessly talk of their diligent labours to bring industry into their city and who wail so piteously every time another business departs for Calgary?
But all have thus far signified piteously little.
There, calling piteously 'Mother, Mother', he died.
There is a blackboard for specials and a cigar box by the cash register for the extra change that people might donate to the hospital care of a local boy who was piteously hurt in a farming accident.
Examples from Classical Literature
The chimney sweep and the shepherdess looked most piteously at the old mandarin.
And under his greyish moustache his lips quivered piteously.
Then he died cursing God and crying piteously for help from the devil.
Presently the old judge came out of his faint and looked up piteously into the sympathetic face that was bent over him.
I bound her, but just as I was about to kill her she began to low most piteously, and I saw that her eyes were streaming with tears.
It was a quarter well stocked with deformed, leering, unkempt and uncombed idiots, who held out hands or caps and begged piteously.
Already the gold-flecked eyes were glazing and they begged him piteously.
He was looking steadfastly at his grandmother and weeping piteously.
The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously.
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