An expert at the atmospheric agency, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sounder "is in pitiful shape."

The troops hauled up twenty-eight prisoners, among them a lieutenant and an Arab sergeant, both in pitiful shape.

Todd looked through the open door at the pitiful shape shuddering beneath the quilt.

They were in pitiful shape, having crossed the Big Blue before there was adequate pasture for their animals.

She carefully didn't look back at the pitiful shape sprawled in the shadows of the stairs.

The government was in pitiful shape to fight a war.

Because our office became crowded with frightened friends and relatives-and by young men in pitiful shape.

Al was in pitiful shape; his mangled feet hadn't been treated; there wasn't the least sign of disinfectant or bandages on them.

They were no longer an army; most of them, understandably, were for the moment in a pitiful shape.

New York State, for example, is still in pitiful fiscal shape and could try to cut its aid to local governments in the coming year.