PATHETIC in a Sentence
Learn PATHETIC from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
64 example sentences for PATHETIC, such as:
1. The animal gave a pathetic little whimper.
2. I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
3. Haley began a pathetic recital of his peculiar troubles.
4. The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
5. And, with this pathetic benediction, the assembly dispersed.
2. I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
3. Haley began a pathetic recital of his peculiar troubles.
4. The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
5. And, with this pathetic benediction, the assembly dispersed.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PATHETIC
Definitions: Search Google Search M.Webster
pathetic
a. inspiring mixed contempt and pity
a. inspiring scornful pity
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 There had been something helpless and pathetic in that still face which had accused her.
2 A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
3 Carol had noted Mrs. Dillon dragging past the house during a bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, looking in with pathetic lips at the splendor of the accepted.
4 Rather pathetic: rich man poking around and trying to be useful.
5 His look never changed throughout the whole of the scene, nor did a muscle move in his rigid countenance, even at the wildest or the most pathetic parts of the lamentation.
6 They would sometimes sing the most pathetic sentiment in the most rapturous tone, and the most rapturous sentiment in the most pathetic tone.
7 Haley began a pathetic recital of his peculiar troubles.
8 And, with this pathetic benediction, the assembly dispersed.
9 He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity.
10 He did not understand the words, of course; but the music and manner of singing appeared to affect him strongly, especially when St. Clare sang the more pathetic parts.
11 St. Clare threw a deep and pathetic expression into the words; for the shadowy veil of years seemed drawn away, and he seemed to hear his mother's voice leading his.
12 Anna Mikhaylovna indicated by her attitude her consciousness of the pathetic importance of these last moments of meeting between the father and son.
13 There was something particularly pathetic and resolute in her face today.
14 The mistress rocked and hushed her baby and when anyone came into the cellar asked in a pathetic whisper what had become of her husband who had remained in the street.
15 All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic.
Example Sentence:
1 I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
2 The animal gave a pathetic little whimper.
3 Human nature is the most pathetic: we always dream of the horizon of a wonderful rose garden, not to enjoy today in our window open rose.
4 The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
5 It's pathetic to see fifty-year-old rock stars prancing around on stage as if they were still teenagers.
6 The old, rather shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic.
7 A half-starved dog lay in the corner, whimpering pathetically.