Your pitiful attempts at distracting us are too funny for words.

It was, he said later, a "pitiful attempt at humor."

Or they might even feel contempt for your pitiful attempt to destroy them.

Regis watched as his friends turned back to back in a pitiful attempt at defense.

I spontaneously said to myself, "What a pitiful attempt at elegance!"

This article is nothing more than yet another pitiful attempt to slag off Cameron.

On the shore a few feet away lay his own pitiful attempt to solve the problem of escape.

He spoke in the deepest voice possible, and knew from the first syllable that it was a pitiful attempt at disguise.

This line hints that people often go into debt over their "pitiful" attempts at luxurious living.

He got up, and made a rather pitiful attempt to put himself right, dripping as he was.