Example sentences for: sentimental

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

  • Several critics say it "does not deliver on what could have been a promising premise" (Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times ), but Newsweek 's David Ansen finds it "funny, sentimental, cheerfully bawdy."

  • Two small samples: high-speed maglev trains that run on water, Alan Sorkin TV shows that aren't sentimental twaddle.

  • Then there's the added insult to untreated ER waiting-room injury of having to watch these Satanic sentimental TV spots for various HMOs, featuring grainy handheld pseudo-documentary sepia-tone footage of some hypothetical multi-ethnic customer base (elderly black grandmothers on rocking chairs with blankets draped over their knees and beaming Asian-American 6-year-olds on swing sets always seem to make an appearance) while muted piano music plays and some studio-musician faux-gospel vocalist breathily intones the company slogan/musical sound bite, informing us all "(Insert Name of HMO here) ...

  • There are realities, homely details, and gorgeous originalities alongside the more sentimental visions.

  • And when New Year's arrives and she experiences that brief sense of being overwhelmed by something she can't explain, she'll be tempted to dismiss it, as she does every year, as sentimental and superstitious.


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