How to Use commiserate in a Sentence

commiserate

verb

• The players commiserated over their loss in the championship game.
• 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
• Campbell said it’s a good idea for the middle-aged to commiserate their woes with their peers.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2022
• One goal of the letter was to commiserate with passengers.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Havlicek came to the Lakers’ locker room to commiserate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• And, if all else fails, feel free to commiserate with fellow parents.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
• 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
• There was no time to commiserate or to process their experiences.
  — Caryn M. Sullivan, Twin Cities, 4 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• When the shortage was announced, fans took to social media to commiserate.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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 video has been viewed more than 2 millions times, with commenters chiming in to commiserate.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Lawrence commiserated that Streep had tripped her once.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• Two of them are commiserating in the Soldier Field parking lot.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Men hear about a personal scenario and tend to problem-solve first, and commiserate later.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Tag along with Tomlinson, commiserate from coast to coast.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2022
• Maybe Brown should commiserate about the celebrity dating game with Lucy Hale.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2020
• People across the state commiserated on social media, sharing photos, gifs and memes about the spring storm.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2018
• Hockey fans around the Beltway can relate—and commiserate.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Many seasoned chicken owners who have seen a bird keel over for no apparent reason can commiserate.
  — Samantha Nobles-Block, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• Deja glanced into her rearview mirror, ready to commiserate with a fellow hometown girl.
  — Brittany N. Williams, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024