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Example sentences for "sympathy"

Lexicographically close words:
sympathizer; sympathizers; sympathizes; sympathizing; sympathizingly; sympatric; sympatrically; symphonic; symphonies; symphonious
  1. Riaz was succeeded by Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, the present Prime Minister, the first Egyptian Premier really in sympathy with the English, with whom he from the first has cordially co-operated.

  2. With such an accumulation of difficulties, native statesmanship, even though supplemented by the new-born institutions, will hardly be able to cope unless assisted for a time by our sympathy and guidance.

  3. It is gratifying to be able to add that, as an acknowledgment of Mr. Cookson's services on this occasion, he received by telegraph an expression of sympathy from Her Majesty's Government.

  4. Both these gentlemen had, whilst spending some months in Egypt, conceived a violent sympathy for the National movement.

  5. Cecca had, of course, an immense fund of sympathy with the emotion of jealousy in other women.

  6. Many a one's soul is in sympathy with one's snout!

  7. Though his silent despair defied her vanity with heroic silence, his courage made her miserable from sheer sympathy and shame.

  8. What an appeal to the sympathy of a warm heart!

  9. The experience of every associate manager, endeared to the Woman's Central through the closest sympathy would be a rare record.

  10. Here was a field for self-forgetfulness and heroic devotion to a holy cause; and here the light of woman's sympathy shone brightly when all else was fear and gloom.

  11. The routine of duty had probably been obeyed, but there had been little sympathy and only the blundering care of men, entirely ignorant of the needs of the sick.

  12. Many a time her kind heart was bursting with pain and sympathy for these suffering men, many of whom had been tortured and starved till already beyond the reach of help.

  13. In all she gratefully acknowledges the aid and sustaining sympathy of her friends in New Milford, Pa.

  14. I thanked him for his sympathy and moved on into the darkening vapor.

  15. The Transvaal enormously increased its armaments, preparations for war virtually commenced, and the entire sympathy of the Africander party in the Cape Colony went out to their brethren of the South African Republic.

  16. The close alliance of sympathy more and more knit together the Dutchmen of the States and of the Colonies.

  17. During the critical days through which we have passed it was sweet for us and ours to receive constant marks of sympathy from all countries.

  18. In his speech in the House of Lords on the British North America Act, Monck failed to rise to the occasion, owing to a sympathy with the views of the Manchester School.

  19. A conspicuous case in point is the entire want of sympathy between Brown and Galt, men of similar type, whose opinions on several questions coincided.

  20. The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time, and have too much sympathy with the speculative class.

  21. Every master has found his materials collected, and his power lay in his sympathy with his people, and in his love of the materials he wrought in.

  22. He has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things.

  23. He did not expect a sympathy with his thought from the village, but he went with it to the chosen and intelligent, and found no entertainment for it, but mere misapprehension, distaste, and scoffing.

  24. For, the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

  25. His companions either caught from him the infection of the mediaeval attitude or were already in sympathy with it, and the work of the firm took on an emphatically Gothic aspect from the beginning.

  26. A warm intelligence of sympathy creeps in among dreams and shadows, the reader is aware of a living presence near him and responds to the appeal of human weakness and depression.

  27. She had the lucky touch to kindle in young minds that fire of sympathy with which they greet whatever shows them their own world, their age, themselves as they best like to see them.

  28. Finally he proposes taking as his master George Edmund Street, who was living in Oxford as architect of the diocese, and whose enthusiasm for the thirteenth century could hardly have failed to claim the sympathy of Morris.

  29. Though noontide fades And shadows fall along the winding glades, Though joy-blooms wither in the autumn air, Yet the sweet scent of sympathy is there.

  30. She should be As redolent with tender sympathy As is a rose with fragrance.

  31. Footnote 28: I had in my innocence written to Mr. Robertson to enlist his sympathy on behalf of some people who wished to be removed to other Camps where their families were.

  32. There comes the pity of it all--total absence of sympathy of any kind!

  33. Then Nehemiah strengthened the guard, or perhaps withdrew his own servants and substituted for them Levites, whose official position would put them in full sympathy with his efforts.

  34. An ounce of sympathy would have done more to commend the doctrine than a ton of dogmatic self-confidence.

  35. And so, lastly, such sympathy should be the parent of a noble, self-sacrificing life.

  36. It is a thing that a man has to do for himself, and however friends and guides may help us in other matters, in trials and perplexities and difficulties, by their sympathy and experience, they are useless here.

  37. Go down in order to lift, and remember that without sympathy there is no sufficient help, and without communion with Christ there is no sufficient sympathy.

  38. Once more, the guard of Levites may suggest that the execution of measures for the reformation of manners or morals is best entrusted to those who are in sympathy with them.

  39. Now, the first condition of sympathy is knowledge; and the second is attending to what we do know.

  40. On the other hand, the words of the Venetian consul, Mark Antonio Barbaro, who repeatedly assured his state that the Jewish diplomatist cherished the warmest sympathy with Venice, made a great impression.

  41. The Jews, therefore, had enemies on both sides, and were soon compelled to relinquish the illusion that Catholicism was overthrown, and that the new religion was in sympathy with them.

  42. Those who disobeyed were threatened not only with excommunication, but also with the punishment assigned, as sharers of their guilt, to all who showed sympathy to heretics--confiscation of goods and deprivation of office.

  43. Samuel Abulafia appears to have had little sympathy with intellectual aspirations, or with the promotion of Jewish science and poetic literature.

  44. The bishop vehemently asked Paul III to sanction the Inquisition against relapsed new-Christians irrevocably, and censured his sympathy with them.

  45. De Castro was also a skillful physician for women, and won the favor of the weaker sex, strong in sympathy and antipathy.

  46. Remarkably enough he found sympathy there; the Venetian senate sent a man well acquainted with the country to question him respecting his plan and means of conquest in the East (1530).

  47. In Italy and Germany he met with sympathy and belief.

  48. Dan Fitzgerald, who was seated close beside her, had evidently been the last to speak, and was now leaning towards her, his eyes fixed with kindly encouragement and sympathy on her face.

  49. She roused it in others, she played with it prettily, she even spoke warily and discreetly about it; yet Rose Tweedie, despite her girlish disdain, had more real sympathy with it than she had.

  50. The remembrance evoked by Gwen's chance words sent a little shiver through the girl; and with it came a sudden pulse of sympathy for the woman who, now that she saw her close, did indeed look haggard and worn.

  51. She did not even fall foul of his indifference when he dawdled about, a picture of aimless dejection, at the hawking party; in fact, she had a sneaking sympathy with his feelings.

  52. Gwen Boynton's hand closed tight on the shaft of her dandy, partly in sympathy with her thoughts, partly because the coolies swung round the last corner sharply.

  53. Mr. Vermont simply; but his "oh" was full of meaning and apparent sympathy for the misfortunes of his friend.

  54. She had some sympathy with the smith's revenge, whilst Praxedis angrily said that it was truly a sooty smith's story, and that the chamberlain ought to be ashamed to show himself before women!

  55. But Dame Hadwig had not much sympathy with the sorrows of the Carthaginian widowed queen.

  56. So he went up to Praxedis, who had some sympathy for him, since she had heard that he had been Romeias' companion, during his last hours.

  57. His "Poems illustrative of the Scotch peasantry" are charming throughout--alive and bright with touches of real humanity, and sympathy with characters apparently antipodal to his own.

  58. To understand any man we must have sympathy for him, even affection.

  59. The "objectivity" of the Gothic mind has never had any sympathy with it.

  60. There is more sympathy with humanity in Francia's angels: they look as if they could weep as well as love and sing.

  61. It will find its way into the public mind, for there is that sympathy between man and the truth, that he cannot live without it and be blessed.

  62. The culture which hinders a man from sympathy with the ignorant, is a curse to both, and the genius which separates a man from his fellow-creatures, lowlier born than he, is the genius of a demon.

  63. We are here to express the sympathy of republicans for a new republic.

  64. Perhaps it may do a great man, mature in Christianity, good to sit down with his fellows and hear a little man talk who knows nothing of religion; it may increase his sympathy with mankind.

  65. One party aims distinctively at preserving the property already acquired; its chief concern is for that, its sympathy there; where its treasure is, is also its heart.

  66. It has shown itself suitable for different ages, countries, and social conditions; and, unlike other religions, is still in sympathy with the highest forms of civilisation.

  67. Hamsun is at his best among the scenes and characters he loves; tenderness and sympathy make up so great a part of his charm that he is hardly recognisable in surroundings or society uncongenial to himself.

  68. Wisdom and kindliness, sympathy and humour and understanding, these are the dominant notes of the new phase.

  69. Like any other strong man, Kendric had a quick sympathy and pity for the weak and abused.

  70. Those who knew him best squandered no sympathy where they knew none was needed.

  71. He felt alive, jubilant, keenly in sympathy with the lure and zest of the expedition.

  72. Again Barlow hesitated, plainly in doubt just how far Kendric might be in sympathy with him.

  73. I deny that the general government ought to set them free, because a decided majority of the States have not the ties of sympathy and fellow-feeling for those whose interest would be affected by their emancipation.

  74. The other took his meaning at once; and his sympathy for the governor was turned into concern for himself, when he perceived that the poison was one from which he was likely to suffer more than his excellency.

  75. I once knew a young lady of polished manners and accomplished education, who would weep with sympathy over the fictitious woes exhibited in a novel.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sympathy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accord; accordance; addition; adduction; adjunct; advocacy; aegis; affairs; affection; affiliation; affinity; agape; agreement; allergy; alliance; allurement; amity; anaphylaxis; approximation; association; assurance; attraction; auspices; backing; balm; benevolence; benignity; bent; bias; bond; brotherhood; care; championship; charity; chord; clemency; closeness; combination; comfort; communion; community; compassion; compatibility; concern; concord; concordance; condolence; congeniality; connection; consolation; contact; contiguity; contrariety; cordiality; correspondence; countenance; dealings; deduction; disjunction; drag; draw; easement; echo; empathy; encouragement; esprit; fancy; fascination; favor; feeling; fellowship; filiation; forbearance; forgiveness; fosterage; goodness; goodwill; grace; gravitation; gravity; guidance; harmony; heart; homology; humanity; identification; identity; inclination; intercourse; interest; intimacy; involvement; junction; kindness; kinship; leaning; leniency; liaison; link; linkage; love; magnetism; mercy; mitigation; mutuality; nearness; nervousness; oneness; pardon; partiality; pathos; patronage; peace; penchant; pity; predilection; preference; proclivity; propensity; propinquity; proximity; pull; quarter; rapport; rapprochement; reassurance; reciprocity; regard; relations; relationship; relief; reprieve; respect; response; sensitivity; sharing; similarity; solace; solidarity; soreness; sponsorship; support; sympathy; symphony; tact; tenderness; thought; tie; traction; tug; turn; tutelage; understanding; union; unison; unity; vibration; warmth