How to Use commiserate in a Sentence

commiserate

verb

• The players commiserated over their loss in the championship game.
• Passers-by stopped to commiserate with him and to try to lift his spirits.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Their job would have been to commiserate if any of them had missed but, in the end, there was no need.
  — Nick Miller, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
• At the bar, at least there’s someone to commiserate with.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 23 Mar. 2026
• Fight scenes give you something to jointly commiserate over or cheer over, if things go well or don’t.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
• And, if all else fails, feel free to commiserate with fellow parents.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
• What follows is a lovely back-and-forth, with the two commiserating about all the ways the world has done them wrong.
  — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 June 2024
• Sikora believes anyone who’s had to turn their back on their past and make a move to a new place will be able to commiserate.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 4 Feb. 2022
• That night, many patrons — both regulars and those who hadn’t been by in a while — stopped by to commiserate.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
• One day the two were commiserating poolside about the lack of options for parents to meet up with kids in tow.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• In the sweltering heat, few had the bandwidth to commiserate about a conflict half a world away.
  — Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2020
• The video has been viewed more than 2 millions times, with commenters chiming in to commiserate.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• But even students who haven’t been involved in the campaign have other venues to laugh at and commiserate about it.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2022
• In the past year, I have been asked many times to reflect and comment and commiserate on the state of our country.
  — Vernon E. Jordan, The New Yorker, 7 June 2017
• Never mind that country music is — or was, a few decades back — the genre people could count on to commiserate in self-pity.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 19 July 2023
• The comments commiserate, but the science doesn’t agree.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 24 Apr. 2026
• The comics Beth Evans draws celebrate you on your good days and can commiserate with you on your bad days.
  — Health.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• In a truly shocking twist, Genevieve huffs off to go commiserate with… Shanae!
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• The women commiserate over their lousy demises and each recounts her plunge into love with the wrong wooing man.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 14 Apr. 2017
• The morning the race was called, Hunter texted a few friends to make plans to get together and commiserate, cry, laugh.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
• At drinks to commiserate over their respective firings, Brown had an idea.
  — Hadley Meares, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
• But lately all of them came to commiserate about a job that had become more fraught and unpredictable during the past few months.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• In those times, dozens of downtown sports bars stand in the gap and offer beer, grub and a space to celebrate or commiserate with other fans.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2022
• At least our kids have other kids to play w/ & Juliet has other women to commiserate w/ over warm white wine.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2020
• For those who arrived too late to get an Ohtani bobblehead, the Dodgers can commiserate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• To the left of the stage, a gaggle of fans partied hard, commiserating with the rapper that not everyone was there to rage.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• Others want to commiserate with like-minded people who are going through a tough time trying to find their way in the workplace.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• The two also seemed to commiserate on politics and the league’s hiring practices.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021
• The two also seemed to commiserate about politics and the league’s hiring practices.
  — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Maybe Brown should commiserate about the celebrity dating game with Lucy Hale.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2020