"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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- Sylvie was no longer the withdrawn, slightly pitiable figure she had last seen in New York.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.
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