Example sentences for: sympathy

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

  • The Times of London, in an editorial expressing "heartfelt sympathy" for the people of Moscow--and also for the Russian administration "lumbered with yet another crisis"--warned, nevertheless, against an abuse of power.

  • If you apologize for your nonexistent shortcomings, you harvest sympathy and blind folks to your genuine shortcomings.

  • I do feel sympathy for Ellen.

  • With his gold chains and fur collars, Lefty is a howlingly tacky parody of a mobster, and Pacino uses all his blowhard insecurities, along with his patented air of electrified stupor, to elicit from us an astounding degree of sympathy.

  • When Boswell expressed enormous sympathy for the victims of an earthquake, Johnson took him to task for his showing deep feeling, saying he doubted that Boswell had even missed a meal.


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