Example sentences for: bleeding-heart

How can you use “bleeding-heart” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Not even the most bleeding-heart death-penalty opponent would dispute that.)

  • Jack Kemp is compassionate, a self-described "bleeding-heart conservative."

  • French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.

  • Journalists seem to regard "bleeding-heart conservative" as a charming anomaly, or a welcome melding of extremes into moderation, rather than as a mathematical conundrum.

  • These suburbanites, Wolfe finds, are wary of both right-wing preachers and bleeding-heart liberals.


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