Example Sentences

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Worse, he takes the umbrella, holds it like a sword, and lunges toward some of those students, who move, pityingly, out of the way.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018

The audience in the courtroom laughs a bit pityingly.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2015

When I asked for the job, some of my colleagues were surprised, and a few could barely disguise their contempt for the medium, asking me pityingly how I could bear to watch all that junk.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2015

With high cheekbones and the penetrating stare of a superior automaton — or maybe just a posh Englishman looking pityingly on the other, mostly-American actors — Cumberbatch infuses Into Darkness with a creepy class.

From Time • May 13, 2013

She ran along by the boiling water to investigate, scrambling down the bank, to stand looking pityingly at the wet, bedraggled body, wondering what it was, for she had never seen anything like it before.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford