How to Use empathy in a Sentence

empathy

noun
  • He felt great empathy with the poor.
  • His months spent researching prison life gave him greater empathy towards convicts.
  • In fact, there are three forms of empathy.
    Dr. Marcus Collins, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • In the end, empathy isn’t just a nice-to-have soft skill.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Most of us avert our eyes and shut down our empathy and emotions.
    Jeremy Barber, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
  • No film, no art, has any meaning if there is no empathy in it.
    Tina Ahmadi Krol, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The stories broke my heart and gave me new empathy.
    Rachel Linden, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Many of the people who make the rules lack the empathy to run this place.
    Daniel White, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
  • There was no no empathy towards him at all.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • What does empathy mean to you, in terms of this new product?
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Gandhi’s empathy comes up again and again with those who know her well.
    Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2021
  • But cooking tools are where my empathy runs out.
    Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Somebody’s out there that cares about me, has empathy for me.
    Brett Weiss, star-telegram, 21 June 2018
  • Maybe empathy is lacking, and for that, films can help.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, this new study does more than find meager empathy for the out-group.
    Wired, 9 Nov. 2019
  • That’s daunting, and empathy alone doesn’t draw the map.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Your empathy works better with crisp edges.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
  • This one reminds you to keep your empathy under lock and key.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Dec. 2019
  • That has a lot to do with the company’s strong sense of empathy.
    Celeste Mora, Quartz at Work, 20 Aug. 2020
  • More empathy needs to happen, for sure.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2026
  • If there was any sort of empathy, the shutdown would have ended a long time ago.
    Celeste Katz, Glamour, 11 Jan. 2019
  • But a lack of empathy isn’t all that common, Morin says.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • A little empathy and awareness would have gone a long way.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
  • Oh, well, those theologians do have more empathy than the rest of us.
    The Hive, 12 May 2017
  • Barham felt like the empathy of Adeem’s writing was enough to sway them.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Lead with empathy, let the rawness pass, and only then widen the lens.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 18 June 2026
  • That said, there is a certain melody in its urging for empathy.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2026
  • Just get rid of any sense of empathy or compassion!
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026
  • This in turn makes space for empathy, which is rarely about saying the perfect thing.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, empathy can go away and suspicion takes its place.
    Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2025

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