A really deplorable situation, with very little room for maneuvering.

City government has a responsibility to correct this deplorable situation.

A visitor asked him what he did to wind up in this deplorable situation.

They (the women and children) were in a most deplorable situation.

His new deal makes the best of a deplorable situation.

You are right in noting, "His new deal makes the best of a deplorable situation."

That is why we find ourselves in this deplorable situation.

How did the women know that by leaving a deplorable situation they would lose their children?

I repeat, this deplorable situation has gone on for far too long.

That deplorable situation is contrary to our national interest, and must not continue.