Example Sentences

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Because the honorific “beautiful” is traditionally bestowed upon us by someone else, life is filled with moments where you hope someone will pity you with a compliment.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022

The child of Mr. T and Gordon Ramsay will pity the food.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2017

Similarly if you babble, interrupt other people's jokes and splutter your sentences, the audience will pity you.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013

In a letter to Strachey from Philadelphia, a British captain writes, “I am sure you will pity us here, insulted and ridiculed by the Americans, disgusted and unhappy amongst ourselves.”

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2010

If a patient, perfectly cured, will be careless of his healthe, none will pity his relapse.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward