sorry sight
Example Sentences
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Only four days into the capital's 12-day waste collection strike and the city centre is already a sorry sight.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2022
Rd7!, and Zherebukh’s major pieces make for a sorry sight huddled around the cornered king.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
Bloodied, dirty and stinking, the Ukrainian soldiers who passed through the town of Komsomolske on Saturday morning made for a sorry sight.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2014
When the big secrets have been revealed and all the rumpled linens have been aired, it’s Irving who is unwrapped, a sorry sight.
From BusinessWeek ● Oct. 14, 2011
“I was a pretty sorry sight that day.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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