Example sentences for: empathy

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

  • 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."

  • A Henry James or a Joseph Conrad might do justice to the tensions in Clinton's political career--the tug of war between idealism and cynicism, the empathy for others, and the calculating self-interest.

  • According to this theory, the affair exposes Clinton's legendary capacity for empathy as a front for his fundamental rottenness.

  • Sensitive Joseph is a striking departure from male stereotype, yet the key to his anomalous solicitude and eager empathy could not be more obvious.

  • Robertson Cochrane's enjoyable article, Me and Empathy [XXI, 4], says, Why is it... that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?


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