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Example sentences for "commiserate"

Lexicographically close words:
commingling; comminuted; comminuting; comminution; commis; commiserated; commiserating; commiseration; commissa; commissaires
  1. Experience had taught her that hunger was painful, and her own distresses made her commiserate those of others.

  2. As for Caesar himself, he could not, however, but commiserate those that thus perished, although they got up thither without any order for so doing, since there was no way of giving the many relief.

  3. Thus did Antipater cry out with lamentation and weeping, and moved all the rest, and Varus in particular, to commiserate his case.

  4. Upon this Eurycles pretended to commiserate his condition, and to grieve with him.

  5. We Humbly Beg you wou'd Commiserate our Condition Considering the Eminent Danger Many Thousands Souls are in by this Decree.

  6. And, truly, whoever does not commiserate and sympathize with the misery of his neighbor, let him pretend to be what he may, he is no living member of the body of Christ.

  7. If I did not myself commiserate their PITY, the pity of those enviers and injurers!

  8. While the commiserate princess observed him, he raised his eyes; a moment he stood uncertain what to do; then he stepped to the palanquin, and from the folds of his tunic drew an image elaborately carved upon the face of an agate.

  9. If Avarice be thy Vice, yet make it not thy Punishment: Miserable Men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto themselves, and merciless unto their own Bowels.

  10. Miserable men commiserate not themselves, bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

  11. They commiserate me on having a Government that will not provide an Ambassador's residence--from the King to my servants.

  12. The other Ambassadors, now that we're coming to know them fairly well, commiserate us.

  13. But to expiate my offence against God, I enjoined myself, by way of penance, a box on the ear from every charitable person who should commiserate my condition.

  14. Madam," said I, "so far from blaming, I assure you I heartily commiserate your sorrow.

  15. I consider your condition, and instead of upbraiding, commiserate you.

  16. Seeing the young man beside her disposed to commiserate with her, she expounded at great length the origin of her misfortunes.

  17. I could not but commiserate this old man as I pursued my journey, reflecting on what had passed.

  18. I do not reproach you for your mother’s crimes--I commiserate you on that score.

  19. I commiserate with one whom, were I vindictive, I should crush beneath my heel?

  20. My heart tells me that you commiserate and sympathise: but my fears--Oh!

  21. He could not, in any measure, be reconciled to the thought that whatever he regarded as his own should be taken away from him; and as is usual with weak persons, he began to commiserate himself.

  22. Her voice now rang with such cordial solicitude that Ladislaus smiled and answered: "Nothing, unless it be to commiserate with me.

  23. Sometimes he would lie down beside me and commiserate my unquiet condition.

  24. To his father, Mark affected, to commiserate the weakness of his brother's intellect, and the frivolity of his pursuits.

  25. Nor do I overmuch commiserate him to whose lot the fifth may fall, for slumber descends upon him forthwith, and he passes away in painless oblivion.

  26. I commiserate Photinius, whose faculties are clearly on the decline; the day has been when he would not have wasted his time sticking pins into a waxen figure.

  27. Colonel Halkett argued that in speaking of the affair he should certainly not commiserate the man who had got his deserts, and saying this he burst into a petty fury against the epistle of Dr.

  28. Mr. Romfrey was elevated by the extraordinary comicality of the notion of the proposed apology to heights of humour beyond laughter, whence we see the unbounded capacity of the general man for folly, and rather commiserate than deride him.

  29. They, like all other monks, are seared to every sentiment of human pity, and commiserate the distressed by taunts and irony.

  30. All who read what follows will shudder, will commiserate him who, feeling himself innocent, relates afflictions he has miserably encountered and gloriously overcome.

  31. I will mere add a few particulars which may afford the reader matter for meditation, cause him to commiserate my fate, and give a picture of the manner in which the prosecution was carried on against Trenck.

  32. And what," said the inquisitor, "was the passage that so moved thee to commiserate us?

  33. One thing, however, I heard, which caused me to commiserate you and the rest of you friars very heartily, in regard of the evil plight in which you must find yourselves in the other world.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commiserate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bleed; comfort; commiserate; compassionate; console; pity