Example Sentences

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Rarely do you get to feel, as pitiably as you do here, Stanley’s primal anger and Blanche’s folly.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2023

Heavier vehicles require more energy for propulsion, which helps explain why gas-powered SUVs and trucks have pitiably low fuel efficiency compared to sedans.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2023

The gesture proved prophetic: within a decade, surging Pop art and minimalism had rendered de Kooning and his many followers, in the eyes of art-world cognoscenti, pitiably passé.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

The darkest dystopia is approached obliquely, as with the unsettling neologisms in “Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary” which provide glimpses of a ghastly future society pitiably akin to our own.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2016

In determining what each play of the features indicated he was pitiably weak.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.