On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Sympathy. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as understanding or inclination and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Sympathy in a sentence
Sympathy meaning
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
Synonyms of Sympathy
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Using Sympathy
- The main meaning on this page is: A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. | A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. | The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
- Useful related words include: understanding, inclination, disposition, tendency.
- Possible Dutch translations are: medelijden, sympathie.
- In the example corpus, sympathy often appears in combinations such as: sympathy for, of sympathy, sympathy to.
Context around Sympathy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sympathy
- In this selection, "sympathy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, want, imagine, feel, imagine, combined and perhaps stand out and add context to how "sympathy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2 in sympathy and and heartfelt sympathy to those. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sympathy" sits close to words such as miracle, recalls and transfers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sympathy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What came back was sympathy, but I didn't want sympathy. (11 words)
After Fortinet’s earnings miss on November 2, ) declined over 2% in sympathy. (13 words)
As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to Michael J. Fox Foundation are suggested. (13 words)
Now staring at Praveen, who is wiping his eyes and sniffling, speaking so mutedly that he's barely intelligible, Christensen can't help but feel sympathy, perhaps not as much as he has for the victim and her family, but sympathy nonetheless. (42 words)
But Ajit Pawar — as opposed to the “NCP plus Pawar” combination, which is what the BJP brass wanted — may also not bring the BJP the electoral strength it is looking for, if Sharad Pawar starts to generate sympathy. (38 words)
Charles said in a message to mark his first Christmas without his "beloved" mum that he had been moved by the outpouring of "love and sympathy" the public had shown in the wake of her death. (36 words)
It’s not only his birthday celebration, just like most songs about mothers become hits, birthday launches draw some form of sympathy — imagine sympathy combined with true craftsmanship? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
What came back was sympathy, but I didn't want sympathy.
Oscar Wilde in 1891 lucidly described such attitudes: "It is easier to have sympathy with suffering than to have sympathy with thought.
It’s not only his birthday celebration, just like most songs about mothers become hits, birthday launches draw some form of sympathy — imagine sympathy combined with true craftsmanship?
Now staring at Praveen, who is wiping his eyes and sniffling, speaking so mutedly that he's barely intelligible, Christensen can't help but feel sympathy, perhaps not as much as he has for the victim and her family, but sympathy nonetheless.
They’ll certainly never garner sympathy from some people, but the message isn’t really about sympathy.
After Fortinet’s earnings miss on November 2, ) declined over 2% in sympathy.
After the Queen’s death, the outpouring of sympathy from the public clearly touched and, at times, overwhelmed him.
Anchored by a quietly compelling performance from Moretz, The Miseducation of Cameron Post tethers sympathy securely to the teenage protagonists.
Artyom doesn't have much sympathy for draft dodgers and deserters, though he can see the wisdom in making a run for it.
As a result an estimated 6,000 Gazans – many of them women and children – have died, and the world’s sympathy is shifting from Israel to Gaza.
As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations to Michael J. Fox Foundation are suggested.
A spokesperson said: 'We have every sympathy with our customer who mistakenly sent funds to an unintended recipient, due to an incorrect account number being entered.
Biden’s 23-minute talk began on a serious note as he spoke in sympathy for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.
Britain is bad in many ways, and plenty of people get into trouble who deserve our sympathy.
Burning books that are holy to many is a deeply disrespectful act. I want to express my sympathy for all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today.
But according to recent polling from CBS News, younger Americans are more likely than older generations to have roughly equal levels of sympathy for the Israeli people and the Palestinian people.
But Ajit Pawar — as opposed to the “NCP plus Pawar” combination, which is what the BJP brass wanted — may also not bring the BJP the electoral strength it is looking for, if Sharad Pawar starts to generate sympathy.
But Griffiths, while expressing sympathy with government officials and their desire to protect family members, argued Georgia’s open records law already provides broad protections to government officials and their families.
Charles, in a message of condolence, sent his “thoughts, prayers and heartfelt sympathy” to those affected by the head-on collision, involving a passenger train and freight train, which killed 43 people.
Charles said in a message to mark his first Christmas without his "beloved" mum that he had been moved by the outpouring of "love and sympathy" the public had shown in the wake of her death.
Common combinations with sympathy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sympathy for 71×
- of sympathy 32×
- sympathy to 16×
- sympathy with 15×
- sympathy and 14×
- sympathy from 11×
- some sympathy 10×
- and sympathy 9×
- deepest sympathy 8×
- no sympathy 7×