How to Use emotion in a Sentence

emotion

noun
  • She was overcome with emotion at the news of her friend's death.
  • The defendant showed no emotion when the verdict was read.
  • Biles also told Vogue that thinking about walking down the aisle left her with many emotions.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • As if his emotions, same as his words, were too strong for their little container and pushed against his skin to escape.
    Dan Musgrave, Longreads, 9 May 2023
  • The deep cut presents his raw talent, invoking emotion throughout its three minutes.
    Cydney Lee, Billboard, 8 May 2023
  • Breaking up is hard to do, and handling the frenzy of complicated emotions that come with it can be rough.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 4 May 2023
  • Subtleties, sarcasm and emotion are often lost, although emojis can help.
    Eric Gilbertsen, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Her role involves a rich mix of musical numbers, striking costumes, and ripe emotions.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • The treatment is reliably severe, often by way of cold, hard satire, if at times also a source of affecting emotion.
    Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • That’s not easy, especially for someone like Booker, who expresses his emotions on the court.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 6 May 2023
  • Trump understands the raw emotion of posting and engaging, the jolt that all but the most jaded users feel whenever the likes and replies start to roll in and the dopamine receptors activate.
    Matthew Kirschenbaum, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Instead, cats use exaggerated body movements or expressions to show similar emotions.
    USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
  • Harrison-Sund describes how HSPs feel their emotions more deeply and have difficulty concealing them at work.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • That heightened the emotions around some of those scenes.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The singers are asked for grandeur and extreme emotion.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That hasn't stopped the project from stirring up a lot of emotions in Law.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • There are stories — or nuggets of them — as the emotion of the music shifts.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • There’s just so much packed into the emotions of her songs.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 June 2023
  • Capture the range of emotions in this era with a mix of deep purples, pinks, and metallics.
    Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Our baseball crew caught up with some of the players to get their thoughts and emotions.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The episode kept Natalie in the spotlight and in her emotions.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The growing crescent Moon in your sign paints your whole life in vivid shades of emotion.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Awards and being brought to tears by the intensity of the emotion in their singing.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • The wild card is Election Day, which, depending on the year, can stir up a wide range of emotions.
    Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2023
  • That tragic day was nearly three years in the past at this point, but emotions still ran quite hot.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2023
  • The melee followed Uruguay’s 1-0 loss to Colombia in a game in which emotions were already high.
    Rudy Chinchilla, NBC News, 11 July 2024
  • All the emotion at the start of the contest — with the appearance of Tom Brady near the top of the lighthouse and the wild weather — was drained from the stadium.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Rounding out at right under an hour, Gravy takes you through a world of emotions, with no skips.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The actors who were chosen needed to be able to convey a wide range of emotions.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For me personally, however, the dismantling of the original APS evokes strong emotions.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 4 May 2023

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