How to Use sympathy in a Sentence

sympathy

noun

• She went to her best friend for sympathy.
• Letters of sympathy were sent to the families of the victims.
• My deepest sympathies go out to the families of the victims.
• Our sympathies are with them.
• There was no sympathy between them.
• In the wake of the conflict, the dogs didn’t get much sympathy.
  — Yana Paskova, National Geographic, 29 June 2018
• The point of the show is not to garner sympathy for the affluent.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• All of them hear our words of sympathy but not much more than that.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• The reader is left to imagine the scene and wince in sympathy).
  — Rosa Brooks, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• Proust was among the many who sent letters of sympathy.
  — Diane Cole, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• His sympathy for the new college went back to his early days.
  — Russell Pulliam, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
• In fact, the words empathy and sympathy both are believed to come from the word pathos.
  — David Villa, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Few inside the sport have matched that level of sympathy.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• But there was scant demand for them or sympathy for him there.
  — Daniel Lewis, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• News of this tragedy elicited murmurs of surprise and sympathy in the room.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• What the sentence is not based on is emotion or sympathy.
  — ABC News, 27 June 2021
• To many people, that would feel like sympathy for the devil.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2020
• Public sympathy will be on her side, but time and wider trends are not.
  — Catherine Mayer, CNN, 14 Apr. 2021
• This was not a decision reached in haste or based on sympathy with the victim.
  — Aimee Ortiz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Count me among those with little sympathy for their plight.
  — WSJ, 10 Feb. 2020
• There will be no sympathy for the Warriors, nor should there be.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2019
• Make the casseroles, knock on doors, and put sympathy cards in mailboxes.
  — Heather Asbury, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Aug. 2020
• But there was little sympathy for the president's plight among those who took to the streets.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2019
• As unions have weakened the public’s sympathy for them has grown.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• These were no simple acts of sympathy in the wake of a horrific injury.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
• Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and loved ones.
  — CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• This love and affection and respect is not out of sympathy.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 9 May 2023
• All expressed sympathy but all declined to take her case.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
• A few days later, a florist arrived with a sympathy wreath for David.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2021
• Women cut off their hair, in sympathy, in a Berlin protest.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024