pitying

Example Sentences

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Pitying the little destroyer escorts and other pint-sized ships that always knifed around the "Big E" carrying nothing but radios, the Enterprise crew raised more money and installed a transmitter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gone is Bushman—Gone Are Spotty Films, Title Readers Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, “I am glad you enjoy it.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Pitying his solitude, she offered him some cakes.

From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by Rizal, José

Pitying the poor wretch, I gave him a pipe, tobacco, and matches, and told him to help my men put the dead and wounded men on the reef, as I wanted the boat.

From The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 by Becke, Louis