Sympathy

//ˈsɪm.pəθ.i//

"Sympathy" in a Sentence (19 examples)

I feel profound sympathy for the victims.

When his wife died, he received dozens of letters of sympathy.

Everybody showed sympathy toward the prisoner.

The man was devoid of such human feelings as sympathy.

There is little sympathy in the letter.

He had some sympathy for the child.

I'm very grateful for your sympathy.

We felt sympathy for her.

Spare me the sympathy.

I feel sympathy for people with that disease.

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If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.

And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year.

While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred.

Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.

Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.

He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.

A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.

The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.

Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.

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