It was a pitifully small card to play, but the only one I had.

From here it looked pitifully small in a very large landscape.

It was a pitifully small sample to be making a judgment, though.

Even standing on the same broad step as him, she seemed pitifully small.

A pitifully small figure no matter how you spin it.

Certainly not by the pitifully small array of human ships coming to meet them.

But $1,000 is a pitifully small fraction of the $5,000-plus that an individual must pay for even basic insurance.

Their pitifully small collection of jars was used up already.

It seemed that the cost had been great, the result pitifully small.

Of the country's 1,000 largest companies, the number run by women remains pitifully small.