They helped us out of pity.
I helped her out of love, not out of pity.
help sb out of pity, kindness, generosity, etc
I done it out of pity for him--because he hadn't any aunt.
Providence, out of pity for mankind, has instilled a soporific charm into all tedious things.
That night I suddenly forgave him, out of pity, not for him, but for humanity, for myself.
At the end of the night, he finally mustered the courage to ask for her phone number, which, more out of pity than anything else, she gave him.
After the first day I rode little, not so much out of pity for the languishing day, but because everyone else marched.
