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How to use pitiably in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
The gay characters were presented as suffering from an affliction, or if not, at least as being pitiably different.
His back was straight again, after all those years of being so pitiably hunched and trembling from the Parkinson's disease.
I am terribly sorry, but we are pitiably unprepared to entertain such distinguished company as yourself, your majesty.
Forced to return to her pitiably poor parents, she is finally forced into prostitution and each new event in her despairing life is a turn of the screw.
When atrocious trouble does come, he suffers it most pitiably.
The human babe is a pitiably helpless and lamentably ignorant animal.
The region was pitiably poor 40 years ago, when Torremolinos's first hotel went up.
But am I clambering pitiably on to a celeb bandwagon, or does the ubiquity of OCD bespeak something deeper?
Making over 200 appearances for Liverpool and winning an FA Cup, League Cup and eight England caps would amount to a lovely career for most players, but it was a pitiably small return for Jones' talent.
The Government's offer of £50m to the flood victims is pitiably small.
Teachers' salaries are still pitiably low, as Rio de Janeiro's teachers remarked as they went on strike this week, leaving 1m children without classes. But at least one battle is being won.
Parents complain that their older children lack common sense, while their offspring regard them as mentally sluggish and pitiably out of touch with current reality.
Examples from Classical Literature
Paul saw Amisura weeping, humping pitiably back to his litter on all fours, and heard Pakriaa laugh.
A pair of small, high-top riding boots of soft, pliable leather, was lying beside the bunk near some pitiably thin stockings.
It was not fair to make the comparison by which Professor Theobald suffered so pitiably.
As a girl, a bride, a young matron, she had not shown her lack so pitiably.
In all but a few of the state agricultural colleges and experiment stations the funds available for books are pitiably small.
He shook so pitiably as he worked that the Cat under the bed felt the tremor of it.
But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.
Paul was pitiably weak, but, also, he was sensitively tender.
Jansenius, though a few words from his wife had surprised and somewhat calmed him, was still pitiably restless and uneasy.
This was evidently not one of the forlorn, persecuted, pitiably dependent order of governesses.
Eynsford Hill to live in Earlseourt on an income so pitiably smaller that I have not the heart to disclose its exact figure.
Trembling, panting, struggling for breath, the Swift One clung pitiably to a high thin branch.
After a while she raised her head, and looked at me with wondering eyes that were pitiably like the eyes of her child.
Sara Ray also managed to get through respectably, although she was pitiably nervous.
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