These pitiable figures who rove the streets so freely could quite easily be the very muggers that the police seek.

Sylvie was no longer the withdrawn, slightly pitiable figure she had last seen in New York.

To his neighbors, Rodney Williams was a pitiable but harmless figure.

The tall old man gazed with sympathy at the pitiable figure.

Cadbury was a rather pitiable figure.

Now a weak, pitiable figure, Saruman is sentenced to be kept prisoner in his tower, guarded by the Ents.

Saruman himself appears as a pitiable figure, and even his attempt to kill Frodo doesn't change Frodo's resolve to let him go free.

Mr. Hampson's Faust is a pitiable figure with a weighty tread.

The man who has been holed up in an English country house instead of allowing himself to be questioned here about an alleged rape cuts an increasingly pitiable figure.

Tall, square-shouldered and bent over with the exhaustion of his curse, he is a hulking and pitiable figure.