piteously in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'pitiəsli ] ]
Examples
- An off-the-rack suit that sags these days on a frame piteously shrunken by the ravages of blood cancer.
- After trying on the jeans, the anemic one would turn piteously to her friend : " Tell me the truth.
- A . The city council recently winnowed a field of 12 bidders down to six, and those who were cut whined piteously.
- But presently a gentleman arrived who had met a gypsy woman a few miles down the road carrying a child that was crying piteously.
- Beside him, his faithful consort piteously expresses in a sad song the harsh pain in her heart, which arouses her bitter weeping.
- It was a relief, for she had groaned piteously from the pain of breast cancer, and he had been unable to afford painkillers.
- He laments piteously over hearing his name in trade rumors during and after the season, offering that he is being disrespected, if not outright shamed.
- A finished reed that starts its concert career by emitting a few perfect notes or bars of music may abruptly fail, whining piteously as it dies.
- He was stripped naked, thrown into the back of the truck, and the soldiers stomped on him with their heavy boots while he screamed piteously.
- Thomas Nashe, in a contemporary letter, complained that the actors were " piteously persecuted by the Lord Mayor and the aldermen " during this period.