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Sentence examples for pity from high-quality English sources.
“Do you pity him?
It could be pity.
All lost in pity for croppy.
For Racine, pity and fear each must be tempered in itself.
I was particularly repelled by the idea of feeling pity for my childhood self.
A lot of LGBT films ask mainstream audiences for sympathy, understanding, even pity.
“O my lord the King, an’ thou canst pity the lost, have pity upon me!
She had drawn close to him, in her dread of the scene, and in her pity for the prisoner.
Use pity in a sentence.
That pang was intensified by the strange feeling of physical pity for her set up by her tears.
The sort of chap girls take pity on, but not enough pity on, if you take my meaning.
Pity me then dear friend, and I assure ye, Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
“To take pity on a woman” means that we are better off than she, that we stoop to her level, lower ourselves.
Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.
Within any one episode he displays delight, confusion, anger, more confusion, hatred, pity and self-pity.
My music is so much better than your music I pity you—almost I would pity you if I were not disgusted by your chump-change music.
Pity the fan confronting a world where “illegal procedure” is no longer a specific infraction, but a category of infractions that includes many forms of misdemeanor.
pity sentence examples
To explain tragic myth, the first requirement is to seek the pleasure that is peculiar to it in the purely aesthetic sphere, without bringing in pity, fear, or the morally sublime.
The misfortune of those whose circumstances most resemble our own, must naturally penetrate most deeply into our hearts, and if we pity kings, we pity them as human beings, not as kings.
And returning to her own room, in terror before the unknown future, she, too, like Kitty, repeated several times in her heart, “Lord, have pity; Lord, have pity; Lord, have pity.”
All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing themselves, he said, “It is a pity.”
pity
verb emotion
- share the suffering of
noun feeling
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
Example: the blind are too often objects of pity
noun event
- an unfortunate development
Example: it's a pity he couldn't do it
noun attribute
- the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
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On this page, there are 20 sentence examples for pity. They are all from high-quality sources and constantly processed by lengusa's machine learning routines.
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Sentence frequency composition for this page:
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
- • 5 sentence examples for pity from The New Yorker
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - Ulysses by James Joyce
- • 3 sentence examples for pity from Encyclopedia Britannica
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from Timeout
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- • 2 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from The Economist
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from BBC
- • 1 sentence examples for pity from GutenbergBooks - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
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There are 9 relevant lexical connections:
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is feel for
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is compassionate
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is sympathize with
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is condole with
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is ruth
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is commiseration
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is pathos
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is shame
- • Relevant word or phrase for pity is compassion
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