Example sentences for: sympathy

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

  • Rest becomes a matter of personal survival, and residents can be chillingly brusque with patients who need only time and sympathy.

  • But that sympathy was long gone by 1952, when he was called before HUAC.

  • A Marxist, he can't suppress his sympathy for those who look for meaning in the material world, in backyard barbecues and cars and fax machines.

  • This daughter's appearance beside Mitterrand's wife at the funeral generated nothing but emotional sympathy, "demonstrating once again that the French don't confuse bourgeois morality with public morality."

  • Will resents Marcus and finds him weird, but when he drops him off at home, they find the mother passed out in a failed suicide attempt, and Will's sympathy is engaged.


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