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Examples of fellow feeling in a Sentence
There's a sense of sympathy and fellow feeling among members of the group.
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Rogers was interested in how players generate this atmosphere of fellow feeling.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
Scientific cooperation is an essential form of diplomacy, generating open-mindedness, patience, and fellow feeling.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2023
Rolling is probably too much to hope for during this initial visit, but the whales may find some milder way of conveying fellow feeling, perhaps by swimming toward our messenger in a manner that emphasizes gentleness.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024
What has been much more difficult to discern is the squad’s morale, its fellow feeling, its unity.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
Conversion to Islam broke even the nominal fellow feeling that should have been engendered by a mutual Christian identity across white and black communities.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2013
That the attributes of self-discipline; of quiet, good-humored resolve; and of fellow feeling still characterize this country.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2022
The lights go out again in a later scene, in which any fellow feeling for Jud is extinguished.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
Some of the fellow feeling for Kiev inspires deranged foreign policy recommendations that Biden is fortunately ignoring: a no-fly zone over Ukraine, for example.
—Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1621, in the meaning defined above
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“Fellow feeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow%20feeling. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.
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