sentimental

adjective

sen·ti·men·tal | \ ˌsen-tə-ˈmen-tᵊl

Definition of sentimental

1a : marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism

b : resulting from feeling rather than reason or thought a sentimental attachment a sentimental favorite

2 : having an excess of sentiment or sensibility

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Examples of sentimental in a Sentence

He has a sentimental attachment to his old high school. She saved her wedding gown for sentimental reasons. He has sentimental ideas about the past. I tend to get very sentimental when I think about my childhood.

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Since the lunch counter is a sentimental favorite for many Cincinnatians, there was a pretty big reaction in conversations about it both on and offline. — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, "Hathaway's: You know it's still open, right? And patty melts haven't gone away," 20 June 2019 On Thursday, the party came with a touch of the sentimental, as Seger winds down his long road career with the Roll Me Away Tour, a farewell run currently scheduled through October. — Brian Mccollum, Detroit Free Press, "Bob Seger brings it home as farewell tour lands at DTE for final run at the old Pine Knob," 6 June 2019 In fact, Howe’s poetry was neither pious, sentimental, nor morbid. — Elaine Showalter, The New York Review of Books, "Whitman, Melville, & Julia Ward Howe: A Tale of Three Bicentennials," 27 May 2019 The s’mores are a sentimental favorite for the couple, who married in March of 2013. — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al.com, "The sweet story of The Birmingham Candy Company," 4 June 2019 Over the years, the singer-songwriter has used her body as a canvas, telling stories with symbols and words meant to represent important moments of her life, and her latest tattoo is just as sentimental. — De Elizabeth, Allure, "Demi Lovato Debuts Tattoo of Her Great-Grandmother," 19 May 2019 Getty Images Theatre trips are a sentimental choice for the couple, too, as one of their very earliest dates together involved an evening out at the West End. — Lucy Wood, Marie Claire, "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Took a Secret Date Night to the Theatre," 4 Mar. 2019 Now, even most millennials are probably too young to feel sentimental yearning for it. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, "Steven Spielberg on the Glories and Limits of Nostalgia in Ready Player One," 29 Mar. 2018 Maybe council members were feeling especially sentimental. — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, "Cincinnati: 'Where every street has two names'," 22 Jan. 2018

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