PITEOUS in a Sentence

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Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear.

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 Meanings and Examples of PITEOUS
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piteous
 a.  deserving or inciting pity; causing feelings of sympathy
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  The guest's tone was almost piteous in its appeal.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
3  Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
4  But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for pardon.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
5  He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
6  They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
7  On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
8  His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
9  The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
10  Please get it for me and put it under for a moment, he pleaded in a piteous voice.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
11  He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XI
12  It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
13  But ere he entered his cabin, light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
14  He paused in piteous anxiety to await his friend's reply.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  Those pictures of glory were piteous things.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
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