Example Sentences

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“People on TV are pitying the Syrians for what we’re going through,” Aboud says.

From The New Yorker • May 26, 2016

This is why it doesn’t have a language of its own because the language of singleness is really the language of couples who are pitying single people.

From Salon • Jul. 9, 2012

"Don't you see, Tritton, those poor little chaps you are pitying so are those two young scamps we were talking about."

From The Young Buglers by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

“And your friends are pitying you down in town,” said I. “Don’t you want to go back to them till spring?”

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard

We were both of us frightened, on the very first day, when the person you are pitying came to lodge with us.

From The Guilty River by Collins, Wilkie