She was lying, a tumbled, pathetic heap, across Kathie's knees.

By the looks of the pathetic heap of twisted metal and plastic, hopes weren't high.

Harry starts to walk away but then he turns and looks at the pathetic heap in the road.

Everything disappears, and only a pathetic heap of clothes and a lyre are left behind.

The cowardly servant, lying in a pathetic heap on the floor, did not merit his interest.

She fell in a pathetic heap to the ground, not seriously hurt, only stunned, for the blow had not been a heavy one.

The body lay in a pathetic heap at my feet.

At the post office, other people's mail invariably looks more glamorous than my pathetic heap of junk.

Poor Ic fell to the ground and lay in a pathetic heap.

The chamberlain keeled over and landed on the deck in a pathetic heap.