The crowd is pathetically small, nothing like the 2,000 they were hoping for, although early days obviously.

That is a step forward, but a pathetically small one.

I was overwhelmed; that magnificent woman had made my problems seem pathetically small.

The boy aboard it looked pathetically small, and Ayshe's heart went out to him.

They were pathetically small, filling less than half the tabletop.

The tablets looked pathetically small, and he was tempted to swallow a handful.

He gathered every stone within reach, but they made a pathetically small pile.

The numbers, I sorrow to say, invited to attend that council were pathetically small.

It seemed to the boy like a pathetically small number of fighters to carry the day, but it was all they had.

To the west the land lay spread out like a map and the distance they had travelled in a week was pathetically small.