Piteous used in a sentence

Piteous in a sentence as an adjective

I had no idea it was even the 10th anniversary until your piteous reply.

Why should I have to imagine someone in a piteous position in order to be able to empathize with them?

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

We are black holes of finance: huge sums of money spiral in beyond our event horizons, emitting piteous cries and futile streams of braking radiation, and are never seen again.

How is it not blatently obvious that is not OK to have richer people from another country picking and choosing which individuals are "deserving" or "piteous" enough to receive health care?

At the risk of being patronising towards someone using English as a foreign language, to my mind the best thing is the text accompanying the cartoon story: "The piteous woman is disturbed.

"Descartes reasoned that since animals are not rational, they are not conscious, and since they are not conscious, they cannot even be aware of pain; their piteous howls during the horrible experiments he conducted on them were to him mere reflex, the unfelt expression of material reactions akin to the shrieking of a teakettle.