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How to use pitifully in a sentence

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Naturally, he'd always shied away from emotional attachments, especially romantic ones, since love was something he knew pitifully little about.
Wearing a life vest, Ma took a boat to inspect the pitifully parched riverbeds of the funnel-shaped dam at the reservoir.
The writer is pitifully ignorant of the history of the field about which he purports to correct his elders and betters.
The fence, now electrified no longer and partially nonexistent, sagged pitifully.
The wind picked up and washed over him, and he shivered and whimpered pitifully.
There was really no need to fling the freezer door shut and throw myself theatrically across the linoleum floor, moaning pitifully.
The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums.
Every now and then, a baby would climb up near the sides, pitifully crying.
The dragon turned to look over its shoulder, flapping its broken wings pitifully.
The only peacekeepers in the area are a pitifully underfunded force preparing to leave at the end of the month.
Left to its own devices, it was pitifully unable to mount a serious military operation.
Try to understand what people are talking about so as not to make pitifully uninformed comments.
The average income can be pitifully low, with some families trying to survive on tiny pensions.
Third, stay in the book business long enough to change the market dynamic and plow all those pitifully puny stores under.
Instead we seem inescapably on course to end up with a lame duck park, with a mangled boundary and pitifully truncated planning powers.
Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence.
He struggled under the weight of the heavy tomes, his twiggy arms flailing pitifully.
The cat immediately began to twine in and out of his legs, mewling pitifully.
The kittens were mewling pitifully, and I picked up their box and carefully carried it down the hallway and into my room.
Twice GHA opted to kick at goal but both efforts by Noonan fell pitifully short.
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Examples from Classical Literature
How realistically, how importunately, how pitifully she took form before him!
He dragged the first one to the spot where the calf was blatting so pitifully.
The Earthmen were pitifully few, only thirty of them, and wretchedly armed.
Nagel's body, scrunched deep into his bucket seat, seemed pitifully thin under the heavy harnessing.
The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven't shot over their heads.
She was so pitifully inclined toward Sophie that her eyes were blurry.
The merchant, protesting his innocence, bewailed his wife and children, and tried pitifully to avert his fate.
He was pitifully vain of his reputation as a Machiavelli and a go-between.
She glanced pitifully at him once more and then haltingly told her story.
Oh, tender heart of Honora that sighed for him so pitifully!
Ghosts of Tsar and tsarina are crying pitifully from Siberian dust.
As he spoke the psychic began to toss and writhe and moan pitifully.
There are times when language seems so pitifully inadequate.
Even Woola seemed to feel the weight of the impending calamity, for he pressed close to Dejah Thoris and to me, whining pitifully.
Miranda's pale, sharp face, framed in its nightcap, looked haggard on the pillow, and her body was pitifully still under the counterpane.
Nancy's capable hands made short work of unpacking the books, the patched undergarments, and the few pitifully unattractive dresses.
She looked at him appealingly, pitifully, but she shook her head.
Then suddenly his hand moved, so feebly, so pitifully, that my wrath vanished.
Her face was pitifully convulsed, and tears welled in her eyes.
To deny that he had come to arrest the outlaw was so pitifully futile.
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