Example sentences for: empathize

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

  • The biggest problem: The character is "so sad and helpless, so hard to like, so impossible to empathize with, that watching it feels like an act of unkindness" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few concede that the film is "amusing if uneven" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ), and Stephen Hunter gives the film a decidedly upbeat review: "The character works because Shannon so precisely gets the dank weirdness of the truly alone.

  • [I]n our attempt to provide direction on how to control and mitigate damages, it appears we neglected to empathize with the fact that orchestrating such efforts may have been difficult for you.

  • When I suggested that such empathy was unlikely given that, at the end of the day, she climbs into an air-conditioned BMW and drives back to her Malibu mansion while her clients return to stinking penury, I was told that she could empathize because her grandparents' cousins died in Auschwitz.

  • As a fellow remote worker, I empathize with your rage against the machine, although I am still not willing to concede that "workplace rage" is a phenom worth adding to the lexicon.

  • It is no accident that the word nebbish originated in Yiddish, a language without a nation that is spoken by a people repeatedly beaten down by pogroms and thus in a good position to empathize with nebbishes.


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