sentimentalizing

present participle of sentimentalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentimentalizing
Verb
  • Members of the Penguins’ coaching staff were gushing about his performance following the game.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This shady ramble follows a beautiful stream to a gushing spring.
    Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Preoccupied, Laz ignores his phone and proceeds with his work, where a ranting and raving Arlo declares that God is going to punish him.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.
    City News Service, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sitting side by side, the two often returned to rhapsodizing about how their future fight might play out.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Naturally, the post attracted over 16,000 comments of women drooling over him.
    Essence, Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Well, then it’s being stolen right out from under its retracting proboscis, which is actually just another drooling head that lives in its mouth.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But there were – among the fawning compliments and the conviction an elusive peace was near – bits of good news for Ukraine.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But on the scoreboard and perhaps in the eyes of football fans and perhaps even the still-fawning North Carolina administration?
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With five blades sandwiched between two moisturizing bars, this razor speeds up the entire process (no fussing around with shaving cream), nourishing dry skin and making nicks a rare occurrence.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This was the mid 1980s and tandem skydiving hadn’t been popularized yet, so his father, Roger, adjusted accordingly by stuffing carpet padding into the leg pads to stop him from fussing.
    Angelina Liu, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Sentimentalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentimentalizing. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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