These injuries, together with the wounds received earlier, reduced him to a pitiable state.

Even in my pitiable state, I thought of the beauty of her corpse.

Some of them are in a pitiable state from starvation.

His nerve had completely broken, and he was in the most pitiable state of terror.

In the morning I saw him emerge from the burnt forest in a pitiable state.

It didn't seem possible that a man could be reduced to such a pitiable state of abject terror, and by a woman.

The man was in a pitiable state of fright and I looked questioningly at the doctor.

It shows the pitiable state of things that I have to come to a comment board to point this out.

When they arrive they are always in a pitiable state.

But by the mid-1950s the houses were in a pitiable state.