Sentences with 'pitiful'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pitiful and other words derived from it.
• « Mithridates went on to fight a total of three wars against Rome, but despite his tenacity he was finally defeated and killed in 63 BCE, the same year that Rome extinguished the last pitiful vestiges of the Seleucid kingdom. »
• « In 1352 they seized control of a key fortress near Constantinople, and from there launched an impressive series of invasions into Greece and the Balkans. In the process, Byzantium was reduced to a pitiful fragment of its former glory, clinging to the city of Constantinople and its hinterlands, but otherwise surrounded by Ottoman territories. »