"shape" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An expert at the atmospheric agency, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sounder "is in pitiful shape."
- The troops hauled up twenty-eight prisoners, among them a lieutenant and an Arab sergeant, both in pitiful shape.
- Todd looked through the open door at the pitiful shape shuddering beneath the quilt.
- They were in pitiful shape, having crossed the Big Blue before there was adequate pasture for their animals.
- She carefully didn't look back at the pitiful shape sprawled in the shadows of the stairs.
- The government was in pitiful shape to fight a war.
- Because our office became crowded with frightened friends and relatives-and by young men in pitiful shape.
- Al was in pitiful shape; his mangled feet hadn't been treated; there wasn't the least sign of disinfectant or bandages on them.
- They were no longer an army; most of them, understandably, were for the moment in a pitiful shape.
- New York State, for example, is still in pitiful fiscal shape and could try to cut its aid to local governments in the coming year.
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