They had lost the six previous league matches in which they had conceded first and cut a pitiful sight in the opening period.
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A rescue team arrived to find a pitiful sight.
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I've had some close scrapes but the pitiful sight of their bodies far below us almost unmanned me.
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No jokes about swimming in circles, please: it's a pitiful sight.
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It was a pitiful sight.
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