How to Use pity in a Sentence

pity

1 of 2 noun

• I felt deep pity for the lost dog.
• She has had a hard life and deserves your pity.
• He didn't live to see his daughter grow up, and that's a pity.
• There can be a lot of self pity and a lot of challenges.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2022
• The real pity is that finances should be the easy part.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Julie took some pity on me and offered to play a game of cards.
  — A. J. Jacobs, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
• But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 31 Aug. 2022
• The look was met not with ridicule or pity but with something even worse.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Feb. 2023
• Here’s what autism isn’t, Gross says – something to be scared of or pity.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Even now, Bankman-Fried is viewed as an object of pity.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 17 Dec. 2022
• So much sorrow and so much pity, even as the Germans are gone.
  — Rachel Kushner, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The pity pickle gave him the mental and physical strength to live on.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Oct. 2023
• Neither the townsfolk nor the tourists lord it over the others or pity each other.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Time for self-pity is limited when the lights are up and the audience is in its seats.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• But free agency moves quickly in the NFL, so there’s no time for a pity party.
  — Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2022
• Mack, Inez and Gia have no use for our pity or concern.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
• His face softens with a mixture of concern and pity, an I-hate-to-tell-you-this look.
  — Longreads, 8 Feb. 2024
• Sachs even feels a certain amount of pity for Tomas, in whom the helmer may see a certain amount of himself.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• Rhaenys doesn’t have much pity given what happened to Laenor.
  — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
• If that was so, then what about the indoor man at the coffee shop who had long since run out of pity for the homeless?
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• No time for pity, the Lumberjacks (3-6, 2-4 Big Sky) are back on the road at a place that presents its own challenges.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
• That would be a pity, for each minute, each second of life is a miracle.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• What a pity that Sherriff Joe Arpaio is no longer available.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Walking through such a space scrawling in a notebook with a felt-tip earned glances full of pity.
  — Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2022
• There's no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.
  — Alexis Jones, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
• This is a pity for Ukraine, not least because Israel is a world leader in drones.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• This would be a pity for nature but also a major loss for the growers.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
• The student, a young woman, threw me a look that can be summarized in one word: pity.
  — Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2023
• But if you’re tempted to feel sorry for him, Fabian would urge you to save your pity.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• There, the movie’s villains are revealed to be more worthy of pity than terror.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022

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pity

2 of 2 verb

• I pity anyone who has to work at that place.
• I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather.
• And both sides have reason to pity themselves as the losers of the system.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
• The Bengals pitied the vanquished and took their foot off the gas in the second half.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 1 Oct. 2017
• Pity the poor billionaires who are about to take the oath of office.
  — Charles Duhigg, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
• There’s no room to pity the gazelles who must tiptoe around him.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 Dec. 2023
• There are people who are hurt by things in life that are easy to name and be pitied for.
  — Lea Carpenter, Time, 19 July 2019
• Oh, pity the hearts of fathers and mothers far and near!
  — Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2017
• For a moment, waiting for the horn to sound, Legacy pitied her.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• In a follow-up post, Woods urged well-wishers not to pity her.
  — Toyin Owoseje, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
• Why pity her for making her own bed and now being forced to lie in it?
  — Ashlee Marie Preston, Teen Vogue, 19 Mar. 2018
• The moral of the story: No one benefits from being pitied.
  — Danielle C. Belton, The Root, 27 Apr. 2018
• Homos were perhaps to be pitied but preferably to be locked away.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• While Killmonger could be pitied, Klaue is nothing but the worst.
  — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• But there was no need to pity this busy bride, whose apron would soon be traded for Dior Haute Couture.
  — Rob Haskell, Vogue, 16 July 2017
• Lenù’s best friend, Lila, shows no signs of development; for this, Lenù seems to pity her.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
• Nobody forced me to pity myself and pick at my food for a semester.
  — Amber Rambharose, Glamour, 16 Aug. 2017
• That said, no one should pity those people whispering their fears to CNN.
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 24 July 2017
• Nixon pitied himself because the press fawned on the Beautiful People—jet-setters of the time.
  — Robert Dallek, The Hive, 7 Sep. 2017
• But do not pity the poor hangman with no one to kill; his self-pity is more than sufficient.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Hesse said the narrative veterans need to be pitied needs to be shifted.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
• He’s put a governor on his emotions, most of the time, although, pity the fool who works for him and neglects to do his work.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Nov. 2021
• These are the Warriors, not the Little Sisters of the Poor, so nobody’s going to pity their misfortune.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
• Rather than rallying around him, top Democrats lashed out at Clinton for his self-pitying tone.
  — Steve Kornacki, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2019
• When things don’t go well, the audience is meant to pity her as just another victim of Leighton Meester’s queen bee, Blair Waldorf.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• For this reason everybody pitied them no less than the sufferers.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Alex is lonely and self-pitying after Jessica dumped him for Justin again.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• Is there an alternate timeline where Omar was pitied by someone in power and given a chance to not become a killer?
  — Edgar Gomez, Longreads, 13 June 2017
• Is that a way to get us to almost pity him for his professed inadequacies as a husband and father?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Apr. 2020
• But people in their 30s still sorting by popularity are more to be pitied than feared.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024