Example Sentences

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“How many people have ever heard of aphasia? Pitifully few,” Williamson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2022

Pitifully small, with a pallid, unhealthy skin and inflamed eyes, the mother gazed at it with mingled anxiety and grief.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie

Pitifully, longingly, the blue eyes stared up at her face through the growing shadows of waning day and waning life.

From On the Firing Line by Fuller, Hamilton Brock

Pitifully he will look at the figures of mourning women who are kneeling by the graves.

From Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It by Zwemer, Samuel Marinus

Pitifully the storm blew her into his arms, a tossed and straying thing that could not speak for sobs; pitifully and with a rough incoherent sound he gathered and held her in that refuge.

From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette