Example Sentences

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Admittedly, I might have pitied him, as he stammered in front of his peers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023

He recently moved from Michigan to Arizona, and though the world may have pitied his decline, he never gave it much thought.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2016

He would have pitied a man who resorts to petty skulking.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2013

If he had died defending himself, I should scarcely have pitied him.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

You’d have pitied the poor boy.’—‘Good heavens!’ said Leigh Kelway, sitting up very straight in his chair.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various