My tennis serve is pathetic; I really have to work on it.
The baby was sick for the first few days after it was born, and was pathetically small and weak.
The little dog looked pathetic waiting outside in the pouring rain.
Helen Keller once said that the most pathetic
person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
The teacher dismissed the student's excuses as pathetic, and gave him a zero for failing to meet the deadline for his final essay.
The young boy had a pathetic look of sadness on his face after the girl declined his invitation
to the dance.
The kittens mewed pathetically for their mother.
He looked really pathetic stumbling around drunk at the party, trying to hit on girls.
The little dog looked pathetic sitting out in the pouring rain.
Your excuses for losing today are pathetic. You
lost because you didn't put in enough effort and you didn't play as a team.
The homeless men were crowded pathetically together, trying to keep warm in the winter evening.
My grandmother was pathetically thin in the final weeks before her death.
Stop whining about how hard your life is, you sound pathetic.
The young girl woke up, and cried pathetically for her dead mother.
He made a pathetic attempt to win his old girlfriend back, but she was totally uninterested in having anything to do with him.