Example sentences for: sympathetically

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

  • If they got sick, they scrounged up the few dollars the doctor requested and received care that, while sympathetically tendered, probably wasn't worth much more than they paid for it.

  • And with details like that, García Márquez's narrative of the kidnapping, the sequestering of the victims in their different safe houses, the efforts by the husband of one of the victims to get the president of Colombia sympathetically involved, the drawn-out negotiations, the months of incarceration, a killing, then another, the intervention of a half-mad television priest, the release of the survivors and, at last, the surrender of Escobar himself--this tale, like a tropical downpour, conjures up a brilliant leafy-green Latin Americanness.

  • Discuss, in general terms, the nature of guilt and point out--as sympathetically as you can--that her divorce had very unhappy consequences for her.

  • Today, in the '90s, right on schedule, fashions of the '70s are being given a nostalgic, sympathetically accurate whirl in such movies as Hilary and Jackie and The Ice Storm . A genial gaze is being cast on them just as flared trousers, square-toed shoes, and long male hair are once again looking normal in the real-life fashion universe.

  • The second article, which appears in the current issue of Esquire , is by David Brock, author of The Real Anita Hill and The Seduction of Hillary Rodham . Accompanied by a kinky photograph of the author, tied to a stake with his chest bared, it describes how Brock became persona non grata on the right by writing too sympathetically about Hillary Rodham Clinton.


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