Example sentences for: empathy

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

  • I felt [empathy] in my heart [as president], but I didn't do it as well--outreach, showing compassion and concern--as well as our sons did.

  • His empathy with the gypsies of his native region is reflected in many of his poems.

  • For example, the Shiv Sena party leader, Bal Thackeray, told an opponent to "get circumcised" if he had so much empathy with Muslims, and informed Congress Party leaders that their dependence on Sonia Gandhi (widow of onetime Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi) showed they were "impotent."

  • It seems that only psychologists know that the word is "empathically," not "empathetically," as used in David Edelstein's review of Unmade Beds . While you will find "empathetic" in some dictionaries, that is only because so many people have (mis)used it, thinking if it is sympathy/sympathetic it must be empathy/empathetic.

  • The topic was empathy (“Empathy in the Brain and in Art”)—more particularly, man's (and not just man's) ability to recognize and respond to the expressions of others.


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