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Example sentences for "sympathize"

Lexicographically close words:
sympathiser; sympathisers; sympathises; sympathising; sympathisingly; sympathized; sympathizer; sympathizers; sympathizes; sympathizing
  1. And, truly, whoever does not commiserate and sympathize with the misery of his neighbor, let him pretend to be what he may, he is no living member of the body of Christ.

  2. Those of my readers who were not familiar with the completeness of my domestic happiness prior to this period of my life, will scarcely know how to sympathize with me, or perhaps to excuse me for adverting to it here.

  3. The poor fellows at this time were beginning to sympathize with the noble fellow the Little Wolf, whose wife had been for some weeks growing ill, and was now evidently declining with symptoms of quick consumption.

  4. And I sympathize with the way he felt, too.

  5. Yes, I'll excuse and sympathize with you, too.

  6. And I do sympathize with your father, too.

  7. To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be virtuously related to it.

  8. Let us forget that it is erroneous Religion; let us look at it as old Thought, and try if we cannot sympathize with it somewhat.

  9. I can now sympathize fully with the toilworn traveler, across a parched and thirsty desert, under a broiling sun.

  10. We are bound to sympathize with him, not only in politics but in religion, against his unbelieving enemies.

  11. He seemed to deprecate his own triumph and sympathize rather with the beaten than the victorious party.

  12. The elder generals, it happened, sympathized generally with the Committee in politics, or at least did not sympathize with McClellan.

  13. In the latter months of his government there began a new trouble, in which it is difficult to sympathize with him, because we are unable to produce in our own minds a Roman's estimation of Roman things.

  14. We cannot but sympathize with him because we know that, though he was not quite in earnest in all this, he was as near it as a man can be who teaches that which he does not quite believe himself.

  15. She who had endured so much was quick to sympathize with others.

  16. Am sincerely glad that you felt free to express all your feelings to me, for now I can sympathize more deeply with you.

  17. And I must confess that I sympathize altogether with them.

  18. Hate to send you this letter--but I think you will sympathize with me in spite of it.

  19. You see that I cannot sympathize with the Whitmanesque ideal of democracy.

  20. Except with the sole purpose of making a new Japanese literature, I do not sympathize with English or French or German studies.

  21. For myself I could sympathize with the individual,--but never with the missionary-cause.

  22. That means, "Although none of my friends have died, I sympathize with your sorrow.

  23. And I sympathize with this character--only, my own character is much too impatient and cranky to allow of correct imitation.

  24. I do assure you I sympathize with you most deeply.

  25. She had talked with Stephen about him, but had found that Stephen did not sympathize at all in her enthusiasm.

  26. Mercy was too much under the spell of Parson Dorrance's recent words to sympathize in this; but she had already learned to avoid dissent from Stephen's opinions, and she made no reply.

  27. I am very sorry for poor Charlotte, and do most sincerely sympathize with Sally.

  28. They have a most immoral tendency to sympathize with the side that's against the law, and they can't understand their friends not sympathizing with the same side.

  29. Italians are quick to sympathize with a romance.

  30. I should think my friends would sympathize with me in having to get rid of this money in a sensible and charitable way, enough to take the tokens without any indignation when I explain it to them.

  31. How can you sympathize with your friends' affairs if you don't make them tell you all?

  32. He could not sympathize with our sufferings, he said, since they were self-inflicted.

  33. I did not then sympathize with this point of view, any more than I do now; but I did sympathize with him in the hardships that he had already endured and in the trials that he was still enduring--in common with the rest of us.

  34. It is true indeed she said our affections outlive our earthly forms and I can well sympathize in your disappointment that you do not find what you loved in the life now ended to welcome you here[.

  35. I began to study more; to sympathize more in the thoughts of others as expressed in books; to read history, and to lose my individuallity among the crowd that had existed before me.

  36. Why, I should think you, of all people, feeling as you do, would sympathize with him.

  37. I do sympathize with him, and always have.

  38. He cannot be actuated by merely vindictive motives, and I am sure he would sympathize with you if he realized the intensity of your feelings.

  39. Because you think I would not 'Sympathize with you?

  40. It served to explain why his schoolfellows had not been to see him and sympathize with him.

  41. Believe that I sympathize with you most deeply, for I enjoy in my life-partner those things which you speak of as making you feel your loss so heavily.

  42. I cordially sympathize with anyone who is so charged unjustly.

  43. A man who is a tyrant at home will be apt to sympathize with tyranny (when not exercised over himself); he will be almost certain not to sympathize with resistance to tyranny.

  44. I had been filled with distress that day by reading, in Northern papers, the doings and speeches at excited meetings called to sympathize with servile insurrection.

  45. And, my dear madam, though I disapprove their temper and language, yet I must confess that I sympathize with them in their principles, the only difference between them and me being that of social position and manners.

  46. After a pause, her companion continued in a calm voice: "You can't sympathize with that, I know.

  47. I sympathize entirely with the course you have taken.

  48. But it remains for you to learn what my powers really are, and to bring yourself to sympathize with my direction.

  49. I do sympathize with you in your difficulties.

  50. Does your silence mean that you can't sympathize with me?

  51. With her cousin Miriam she could sympathize in a way impossible to Spence, who, by-the-bye, somewhat misrepresented his wife in the account he gave to Mallard of their Sunday experiences.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sympathize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.