How to Use sentimentality in a Sentence

sentimentality

noun

• But there’s no room for sentimentality with so much at stake.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
• But Chance didn’t so much bask in sentimentality as dance right over it.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• With that goal in mind, there is simply no room for sentimentality.
  — Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
• Grealy writes without sentimentality and finds a way to fill the book with joy.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• Caught up in the sentimentality of his own fame, the Weeknd just can’t heed his own curtain call.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025
• But Donoghue doesn’t just play it for laughs — or sentimentality.
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• The end-of-year sentimentality is steadily welling up (this year more than ever).
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2020
• With a season on life support, there is no place for sentimentality.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
• One that even left behind a note of sentimentality.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2026
• There's a time to think like a minimalist, and a time to let sentimentality win.
  — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 19 Aug. 2025
• Brie had it on the whole weekend, and Franco has kept it all these years out of sentimentality.
  — Erin Clack, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• This sentimentality towards the past is more than a sign of resistance to progress.
  — Will Johnson, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
• His fourth feature unfolds with the warm glow of a memory piece but none of the gooey sentimentality.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2025
• Australia will have no time to bask in the sentimentality of the occasion.
  — SI.com, 25 June 2018
• The sentimentality behind the trip means that the cost is of less importance.
  — Jordy Fee-Platt, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2023
• Some of the lovey-dovey moments come close to pure sentimentality—but her sense of humor has a way of keeping them lively.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2021
• The tragedy is so unobstructed and there’s no wash of sentimentality over it.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
• The three act classic is brisker than ever, raw in its emotion and sincere in its sentimentality.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• Such devices, and the film as a whole, threaten to slip into sentimentality.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2018
• To insist on reading it thus is to indulge in a sentimentality that weakens the stab of this music.
  — Leah Garchik, SFChronicle.com, 18 June 2019
• As schmaltzy as the genre can be, this sentimentality is also the power ballad’s saving grace.
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 22 May 2026
• Or maybe this is the time for a little bit of that American sentimentality.
  — Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
• This closeness, shown without a smidgen of sentimentality, serves as the saving grace of these women’s lives.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Aug. 2023
• There was no time for sentimentality.
  — Literary Hub, 21 May 2026
• This is one of the keys to the two movies’ appeal, how their worship of speed and noise gives them cover to wallow in macho sentimentality.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2022
• The idea began to form in his mind that something greater lay behind his sentimentality — a whole culture and heritage that might be thrown away.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• Cry Macho is unabashed in its sentimentality, to the point of being almost too swift about it.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• And all that is well before the unearned sentimentality of the ending – which Driver comes damn close to pulling off on sheer will alone.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
• There wasn’t time, though, for sentimentality Monday, to think about his own Olympic dream, the one that never was.
  — Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Can his viewer tolerate one big gulp of pure sentimentality after two-plus hours that have largely skirted that tone?
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025