How To Use Sympathy In A Sentence

Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence.
Both were well known in this close-knit community and deepest sympathy is extended to their families.
I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
His curiosity excites the most patronising sympathy. Times, Sunday Times

When faced with mass desertion, regiments often lacked the personnel to pursue the scofflaws, and soldiers could count on the sympathy of civilians willing to give them jobs rather than report them.
We (the Western public) regard picnics as highly advantageous to health and beauty, promoting social sympathy and high-toned alimentiveness, advancing the interests of the community and the ultimate welfare of the nation. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870
There is an earthquake in Leghorn: Flaubert doesn't cry out in sympathy.
Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
Bosnia are not simply in Brazil to elicit sympathy or provide romance, and they score an awful lot of goals. Times, Sunday Times
I've got no sympathy for him - he's brought this all on himself!
Not exactly cause for sympathy, then. Times, Sunday Times
It is almost hard not to feel a tinge of sympathy for Sturridge. Times, Sunday Times
People had become terribly troubled," he said, trying hard to imbue the word "troubled" with sympathy. Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Desert Island Discs; Craig Brown's Lost Diaries
Religious scholars will recognize immediately that talk of "The Christ" or World Teacher his nothing to do with the Christian Messiah but a different chap called Maitreya or Djwahl Kuhl who, in the Christian religion has another name and who the Rolling Stones had sympathy for. Archive 2008-02-01
One can't help feeling sympathy with his plight, and admiration for the way he meets his end.
This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world. Times, Sunday Times
If you play the fool, and lose a good job on consequence , you can hardly expect much sympathy.
He won the award, but some suspected it was a sympathy vote following his struggle with cancer.
I don't think Bertha would appreciate your particular brand of sympathy.
a peculiar bond of sympathy between them
Elsewhere she might have won sympathy and benefited from female solidarity. Times, Sunday Times
I am to convey to you an expression of the sincere sympathy of the Army Council.
We have no shows of sympathy for the poor man trying to fit everything into 24 hours.
Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife
There is no doubt that Zbo played on Modigliani's illness to excite sympathy in a way which the artist did not appreciate.
One cannot help feeling sympathy for one 's dining companion. Times, Sunday Times
They need rules and discipline not tea and sympathy for their wrongdoings.
Of course, this will not elicit general sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
Even Englishmen who had some sneaking sympathy for the Stuart cause, you were to understand, must have flinched from its wild embodiment.
‘Cyrano must build sympathy with the public in the very first scene, when he must fight and sing like a hero,’ he said, punctuating his words with a flourish of an imaginary épée.
Our southern ally's loyalty to her beautiful "unredeemed" provinces, and her claim, which all right-minded Englishmen (I include myself) most heartily endorse, to dominate the historically Italian waters of the Adriatic, happily proved too strong for a machine-made sympathy for Berlin based on nothing better than a superficial resemblance between the histories of Piedmont and Prussia, and a record of nominal alliance with powers whose respect for paper treaties was always fairly apparent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917
I promise you never henceforth to offend your cause except in that mere woman's sympathy with what you call rebellion, for which women are not so much as banished by you -- or if they are, then banish me! The Cavalier
He needed intelligently and forthrightly to answer her charges and demonstrate sympathy for her embattled position.
However, my sympathy didn't override my professional ethics. DEAD BEAT
He acted with some sympathy towards his victim.
I don't think anyone has sympathy for what was undisputedly a racist statement.
I was given a chance to go through some of the gawkiest stages of growing up in an atmosphere of sympathy and understanding.
The sight of him filled her with a womanly sympathy.
Teresa and I bring up the rear of the eight-person group -- I from gimpiness, she from sympathy. Canyoneering Heaven
Last week hundreds of workers all across the UK rallied together in demonstrations, sympathy strikes and walkouts. Times, Sunday Times
It was a classic of interrogation: first the bully, then the kind one who offers sympathy.
The seamen went on strike in sympathy with the dockers.
You may show some public sympathy and support him for a while, but in the end he has to go.
I have no sympathy whatever with the idea that a humourist ought to be a lugubrious person with a face stamped with melancholy. My Discovery of England
It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
We have little sympathy for people who leave their jobs without just cause.
Widespread sympathy for the ambulance workers was reflected in the flow of public contributions of financial support.
To his wife, his daughters, and all his extended family, we tender our sincere sympathy.
I think modern parents will empathise with him, I really do, if people really listen to this play, but because of his attitude and his cantankerousness he may not get sympathy.
Too often, free flowing emotions of sympathy dissipate with the initial fascination, without confronting the long-term consequences of misfortune.
As I understand it it can all be sorted out, but you are — I suspect unintentionally and in good faith — offering a bit of a straw man due to your not distinguishing a few key concepts, such as prudentialism versus constitutional judgment, empathy for a legal injustice versus sympathy resulting in bias, and a judge versus a justice. The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy.
It was a term calculated to gain him sympathy, and with his male friends, and an occasional prostitute, it did. The Women’s Room
Out of sympathy for the homeless children he gave them shelter for the night.
The committee expressed sympathy with all the families who suffered bereavements during the year.
Expressions of sympathy flooded in from all over the country.
Kennedy's trademark fascination with violence, both physical and psychological, animates these stories in alternately bold and subtle guises: the literal bloodshed in "What Becomes" and "Story of My Life" complements the romantic heartbreak in "Edinburgh" and "Sympathy. Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy
Sympathy is the easy option but the moon cools emotions so you can give a relative, or close friend, the impartial advice that helps so much more. The Sun
He has pathos without sentimentality, humour without guile and infinite sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
The implication of this is that the INEC chairman might have some sympathy for the PDP since both his appointor and majority of members of the ratifying body are PDP members. Undefined
Angus thought everyone looked so chilly that he shivered in sympathy and took a swallow from his flask.
She had every sympathy with him.
At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
You have sympathy for libertarian views. Christianity Today
In the particular case of Belarus, the Russians deserve some sympathy.
I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
The Duke tried to appear unconcerned, but both he and his wife were so evidently embarrassed that they won the sympathy of their fellow passengers. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
Let me please say before I'm howled down in protest I do have every sympathy with the families and loved ones that grieve for them.
Describe fully what took place, in a way which will arouse the feelings and sympathy of your readers.
May I express my deepest sympathy.
we are all...in close sympathy with...
Suddenly the writer remembers the nameless malady of the poor — that mysterious disease which the rich share but cannot alleviate, which is too subtle for doctors, too incurable for Parliaments, too unpicturesque for philanthropy, too common even for sympathy. The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses
You are cordially invited to a reception and vigil with plenty of tea, sympathy and more than a drop of the hard stuff.
The scene won no plaudits for the students, nor can it have done their case to create public sympathy with their cause any good.
It is to his credit that he manages to elicit our sympathy without ever betraying the character's maddening interiority.
Votes of sympathy were passed with the following on their recent bereavements.
It was partly in sympathy with the "platteland" strike and partly in preparation for the next round of wage bargaining. ANC Daily News Briefing
NOT A LOT OF SYMPATHY FOR UMPS: Speaking of the umpires, this columnist is an unabashed admirer of many of them. Covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Torre's dilemma: Choosing No. 1 starter
A baby was crying, and I felt a certain sympathy for it.
By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities.
If there were less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
They sent some flowers as a gesture of sympathy to the parents of the child.
You have read into her letter a sympathy that she cannot possibly feel.
Jr. wrote to Dennett, "I am in entire sympathy with the idea of leavening the loaf. EphBlog
She deserves sympathy in these present difficult times.
And many lower officers and constabulary had full sympathy with the marauding mobs.
They were so repulsive that instead of appealing to one's sympathy they only succeed in arousing one's disgust. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
The letter was a genuine expression of sympathy.
When you analyze the inarticulate characteristic of Chinese people, you will find it is the combination of considerateness and sympathy.
My associate quickly became a friend as he tried consoling me with humour and sympathy.
Which of us, in fact, has the force of character to be superior to petty vanity, to _petty fine feelings_, sympathy and self-reproach? ... The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
At this time of sorrow, deep sympathy goes to you and yours.
The Tottenham fans' attempt to re-claim the word complicates the issue, but I don't think the argument of the Chelsea fan mentioned in the article would garner much sympathy if his friends were shouting racist abuse at a rapper who was using the 'same word' in his performance. The Guardian World News
There was a wave of public sympathy for her when she died.
As a politician, her sympathy was always for the underdog in society.
This meant genuine sympathy when things went wrong and rejoicing at one another's achievements.
Resist being swayed by people who usually play on your sympathy. The Sun
In sympathy with its subject matter, the work has a veiled, half awake quality.
But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
Comments on the internet showed no sympathy with the dead official and generally support the 21-year-old girl, acclaiming that she is another Yang Jia who acted in response to an injustice. Global Voices in English » China: Netizens stand with the waitress who killed an official
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them! Anne Frank
I must confess I have some sympathy with his views.
It was beastly awkward certainly; there I could quite agree with him, and this was the only sympathy he extracted from me.
The family thanks them all for their many kindnesses, good wishes, and expressions of sympathy; and wishes that in lieu of flowers, they make a donation to a charity of their choice.
She felt a fraud accepting their sympathy .
At the same time you must have sympathy.
I have some sympathy with that point of view.
The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.
The bureaucrats, widely regarded as under-worked and overpaid, did not get much public sympathy for their pay claim.
To expect the victim's family to show sympathy and understanding is outrageous. The Sun
But I'm not a neurotic clubwoman looking for sympathy, either. The Past Through Tomorrow
Or they make up their own dives on the spot, sometimes while in midair -- improvisation that frequently leads to the kind of painful bellyflop that causes spectators to groan with a combination of sympathy and mirth
Willard is in sympathy with many Green Party issues.
I think I will find sympathy here if I say that my solution was to retrofit simple 3x3 cables along the front by picking which 8 stitches I wanted to use outlining in purls, of course, throwing a rescue line, and bravely dropping those 8 stitches down all 20+ rows of finished knitting, and reknitting them cabled, in place. Making Light: Open thread 135
Both are young centre backs who have been forced to play out of position on the flanks and are deserving of considerable sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
A very ordinary rural chap (the Mirror piece certainly debunking the idea that he is a reclusive loner), he has understandably won mass public sympathy for the way he was mistreated.
If people cannot be brought to an interest in one another greater than they feel to-day, to curiosities and criticisms far keener, and co-operations far subtler, than we have now; if class cannot be brought to measure itself against, and interchange experience and sympathy with class, and temperament with temperament then we shall never struggle very far beyond the confused discomforts and uneasiness of to-day, and the changes and complications of human life will remain as they are now, very like the crumplings and separations and complications of an immense avalanche that is sliding down a hill. An Englishman Looks at the World
The 25-year-old may have been excused a cross country run in Epping Forest on Monday morning – apparently due to a slight ankle injury – but trained as normal with his club-mates in Chigwell in the afternoon, with Redknapp subsequently suggesting he has some sympathy for a player who would earn considerably more than his current £45,000-a-week by moving to Chelsea. Tottenham to reject improved offer from Chelsea for Luka Modric
Very few bells to be found on these rare instruments even if there are many strings vibrating in sympathy.
The best humblebrags have to convey three brags in 140 characters, while simultaneously begging for sympathy.
Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy.
It is almost hard not to feel a tinge of sympathy for Sturridge. Times, Sunday Times
How does the state balance sympathy and the demands of expediency?
I feel a very slight twinge of sympathy for its owners. Times, Sunday Times
For the first time in years they engaged the interest, even the sympathy, both of the media and the wider public.
But as I've never cottoned to either team, I'll concede my sympathy to the unrepresented taxpayers who foot the stadium bills.
The traditional steel and heavy engineering sectors naturally have no sympathy.
Pope Benedict is expressing sympathy for religious minorities in the Muslim world.
This is the story that has preoccupied at least two nations and elicited sympathy around the world. Times, Sunday Times
I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. The Ragged Edge
I'm rather sceptical about their professed sympathy for the poor.
Their first thought was not one of sorrow and sympathy. The Sun
You have sympathy for libertarian views. Christianity Today
A little sympathy makes a world of difference to someone who's been badly treated.
It is impossible not to feel sympathy for those caught up in this mess - few of whom can be blamed for their predicament.
The principal listened to the boy's story with sympathy and understanding.
You are a man of special sympathy and intelligence, and I greatly respect you for it.
His continual demands for sympathy rebounded on him because his friends finally stopped listening.
I don't know what sort of intellectual disasters leads a person -- especially a lawyer or law student -- to write such know-nothingisms as Any legal paper titled with any of the words "universe", "neo", or "towards" is prima facia useless but you have my sympathy. Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law
It means that I have no real belief in the power of reason, and sympathy and humanity.
They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
He tried to alleviate their disappointment by inviting them in for tea and sympathy.
Lusty conservatives who attack free verse, free fiction, ultra realism, "jazzed" prose, and the socialistic drama as the diseases of the period have my respect and sympathy, when it is a disease and not change as change that they are attacking. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
The parodic elements of Gay's pastorals are matched by close descriptions and a genuine sympathy for rural life.
Michael nodded, his greeny blue eyes soft with sympathy.
It was a genuine expression of sympathy.
He should, he knew, speak with some sense of colloquialism if he was to get on with this stonebreaker, a person for whom he had a certain removed sympathy. Waysiders
All this elicits little sympathy from those who contend that aspiring owner-occupiers have always struggled. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Brooke I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his opening expression of sympathy.
Considerable sympathy and understanding was shown for the difficulties facing allied troops in Iraq.
Assure his wife and valiant companion of my deepfelt sympathy. Messages to America
If anything there was sympathy for libraries and their staff, allied to a vague if unstated belief that they deserved better.
His resistance to her demand will be as harmful as compliance, but her misery commands his sympathy.
He must divert their sympathy for Ray into distrust of him, and before he had fully considered his words they were spoken, -- crafty, insidious, and calumniatory. Marion's Faith.
The rebels' failure to win sympathy from fellow officers is reassuring, but their grievances are real.
The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family. Book review
beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
One of the cooks, a stout middle-aged woman whom the others called Johanna, gave him a glance of sympathy. The Hosts of the Air
Allow me, Madam, to return to the ladies the heartfelt thanks of the entire command for their kind consideration, not only in sending us these very appropriable good things, but also for their generous sympathy for those near and dear ones we have left behind us. The valley campaigns : being the reminiscences of a non-combatant while between the lines in the Shenandoah Valley during the war of the states,
The victim's parents have received thousands of messages of sympathy.
There's some sympathy for this new country's growing pains, but that sympathy is fast wearing out.
On behalf of the community we extend our deepest sympathy to his sisters, stepsisters, nephews, nieces relatives and friends.
Gossip said she neglected Michael, and local attitudes became tinged with an unexpressed sympathy when he was around. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Although he is a rogue and a rascal, Abagnale is treated with warm-hearted sympathy throughout the film.
He feels as much sympathy for these victims as he does for slaves who died centuries earlier turning some tyrant's grindstone.
Or that the two sons struggle to express sympathy with the bereaved. Times, Sunday Times
The report concluded that the Khmer Rouge tactic was proving successful and that grassroots sympathy for the group had probably been underestimated.
I expect St. Paul ran into a woman who could outargue him, too, " I said, not without sympathy. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows.
Cruelty "perversely" gives sympathy to the terrorists, Mora said, adding that it lessened the contrast between the United States and its enemies. Mndaily.com - all articles
Is your sympathy with the millionaires or the billionaires? Times, Sunday Times
It's clear from the outset that Myra is quite mad, and even when the source of her madness is revealed, it doesn't make one feel any more sympathy for her, or for her milksop of a husband. Creep Show
Few can have sympathy for a team who starts a match as if they are already one up.
Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
As the operation continues, calls have been received from local residents expressing sympathy for those who have died.
We tend to think of sympathy as a cohesive force which binds us together in mutual understanding. The Times Literary Supplement
The referee's late decision appeared to be an act of sympathy for last season's Dr Martens League champions, who had in some instances been wasteful in front of goal, in others denied by an inspired Kennedy.
At this time of sorrow, deep sympathy goes to you and yours.
We have seen that one of Lees designs in crossing the Potomac was to give the people of Maryland an opportunity of liberating themselves; he accordingly issued an address to them declaring that the South had watched with deepest sympathy their wrongs and had seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. Chapter IV
I have some sympathy with that point of view.
A large number of teenagers visited the family to offer their sympathy with over seventeen signing a card.
Sympathy that, despite the unmistakable signs of turmoil, he has been on the receiving end of abuse and condemnation from people who ought to have known better. Times, Sunday Times
True kindness presupposes sympathy.
Desmond eyed her anguished face with sympathy.
Their pleas failed to engage any sympathy.
She said that she was deeply moved by all the letters of sympathy she had received.
She seemed to feel some sympathy for the patients.
She had early learned to ignore his moods, to avoid sympathy which aggravates, and to meet his blues with a vigorous counterirritant of liveliness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
Besides which, a complaint is usually uttered more to elicit sympathy than in real expectation that the grievance will be addressed. Times, Sunday Times
She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life.
Early on in her illness, he stunned Japan by appearing to condemn senior courtiers for their lack of sympathy for her. Times, Sunday Times
But unlike in ordinary life, their tales of downfall are not treated with sniggers; they're treated with awe, a certain kind of humility, and sympathy and understanding.
Most of those who commented were themselves in this age group and felt considerable sympathy. Times, Sunday Times
Who wanted the weather to be in sympathy with their moods?
Deirdre murmured, a tear tracing a path down her cheek, from sympathy, or from the bruises Alana was probably inflicting, he had no idea.
Did none of them elicit sympathy? Times, Sunday Times
Although it is inarguable that practically every scene is designed to evoke a kind of patronising sympathy for the men, nothing either of them does seems designed to inspire any sense of respect.

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