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Example sentences for "pitilessly"

Lexicographically close words:
pitifull; pitifullest; pitifully; pitifulness; pitiless; pitious; pitmen; pito; pitous; pitously
  1. He held in his hand a yellow tulip, at which he plucked pitilessly in his reverie, throwing the pieces to the wind.

  2. But there is a stage that I love, the fanciful, extravagant, impossible stage, where the virtuous public would hiss pitilessly from the first scene, for lack of understanding a word.

  3. Creation mocks pitilessly at the creature and lets fly stinging sarcasms at every turn.

  4. In that wild solitude the white stars looked down upon him pitilessly and pityingly.

  5. The burning white day passed, and likewise the night, with its white stars shining so pitilessly cold and bright.

  6. I saw how, when von Francius called upon her to do her part, and the looks which had hitherto been averted from her were now turned pitilessly and unwinkingly upon her, she quailed.

  7. But it remained pitilessly shut, and the little boy had to accommodate himself as well as he could to a new phase in his mental history--the being excluded--left out in the cold.

  8. The adventurers, exasperated by the long contest they had been obliged to sustain, pitilessly massacred their conquered enemies, who would have implored mercy in vain.

  9. All the Huguenot nobles dwelling near the admiral were pitilessly murdered, and a similar carnage took place at the Louvre.

  10. Old and young, women and children, were pitilessly butchered.

  11. His queen, Bertha, mother of his two children, was pitilessly driven from his bed and imprisoned at Montreuil, and two of his venal bishops were found to bestow the blessings of the Church on the new union.

  12. But all his attempts met with the bad luck which pitilessly followed him.

  13. She advised her brother in their purchases and would pitilessly send him to remote parts of France to save a trifle of cost.

  14. The fresh, pure blossoms of affection which bloomed instinctively in that young soul were pitilessly crushed.

  15. The cheap mirror exaggerated her plainness, while memory pitilessly emphasised the beauty of the other woman.

  16. Full tides of longing beat pitilessly upon his senses, never, it seemed, to ebb again.

  17. The people of Parnaki, in the bend of the Euphrates between Tel-Assur and the sources of the Balîkh, had taken up arms on hearing of the brief successes of Tiushpa, but were pitilessly crushed by Esarhaddon.

  18. This preliminary success laid the lower plain of Susiana at his mercy, and he ravaged it pitilessly from Baza to Bît-bunaki.

  19. She was so immersed in the depths of some combination for her bouquet that she allowed herself to be pitilessly burned by the sun, more splendid in his anger and pride than was his wont.

  20. Fierce Umar, recalling the fact that all the prisoners had made themselves conspicuous by their persecution of the Mussulmans and were responsible for the Prophet's banishment, proposed that they should be pitilessly exterminated.

  21. By pitilessly raiding their flocks and caravans, blocking them by hunger behind the ramparts of their city, he soon compelled them to come in their turn and implore the Prophet's mercy, when they were converted to Islam.

  22. Maria now prepared for this silent confession, and sternly and pitilessly examined her conduct.

  23. The cloudless blue sky arched pitilessly over the city, and at night glittered with thousands of twinkling stars.

  24. To me the sun above was but the hideous eye of Circumstance which had stared down pitilessly on that bare head of hers, and blistered those feet.

  25. Oh, mother, mother, can you not see that no wolf with a stolen lamb in its mouth was ever more pitilessly shot down by the owner of that lamb than any hireling wolf of yours would be shot down by me?

  26. And with the knowledge that she could no longer conceal her shame, came also the assurance that the man for whose sake she had sinned, had pitilessly abandoned her.

  27. But that was long, long ago, and the sufferings of those, who were pitilessly annihilated in that mighty revolution, have long been forgotten.

  28. Temptingly the vision rose before him, how he would not spare the oil-jug, and would pitilessly cut to pieces some of the biggest onions; when a cloud of dust rose on the opposite shore and the forms of horses and riders became visible.

  29. Her tongue was a two-edged sword, and the black deriding eyes looked pitilessly on her victim's writhes and quivers.

  30. Formerly he had pitilessly enforced his own, compelling the girl of fifteen to wed a man many years her senior.

  31. The electric storm, which had muttered and menaced like a Sabbath of witches till daylight, had broken at length and turned the world to a raving turmoil, pitilessly scarring the mountain and deluging the gulches with cloud-burst.

  32. In other words, they pitilessly tore in pieces every person there who wore a petticoat.

  33. La Valliere ceased to hear the queen, who pitilessly added, "I will send you somewhere by yourself, where you will be able to procure a little serious reflection.

  34. Pitilessly would John strip his unsophisticated tattooed comrades of everything they owned on this earth.

  35. Therefore she concealed her jealousy from Erwin with Spartan self-control, and smiled with the most charming loftiness, while the poisonous mistrust tore her bosom as pitilessly as the young fox tore the brave little Lacedaemonian.

  36. His cheeks burn--he has lost his last illusion--the whole vulgarity of the temptress to whom he had yielded is pitilessly exposed to him.

  37. Thence we went melting through the sunshine, which beat upward as pitilessly from the white road as it blazed downwards from the sky.

  38. We had time only to take this little walk, when it began to grow dusk; and, being so pitilessly cold, we hurried back to our hotel.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitilessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atrociously; cruelly; ferociously; harshly; heartlessly; roughly