Example sentences for: sentimentality

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

  • Harper's calls Purdy a "cornpone prophet" and blasts his "unctuous sentimentality" (Roger D. Hodge).

  • 7) She reflects our empty sentimentality.

  • Entries mocking the soppy Harvard sentimentality of this exercise, or Chatterbox's low moral standing (as a cyberjournalist) to be fretting about this problem, are not welcome.

  • A puff of sentimentality is exhaled at the end of the book: Inman is reunited with Ada, only to be shot down at the last minute.

  • In a famous essay, George Orwell wrote that what makes Dickens so attractive, despite his failures in characterization and a tendency toward sentimentality, is his decency.


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