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Example sentences for "sympathised"

Lexicographically close words:
sympathetically; sympathetick; sympathie; sympathies; sympathise; sympathiser; sympathisers; sympathises; sympathising; sympathisingly
  1. The Friends warmly sympathised with him, and determined that Robert Barclay and certain others of their number should go to Ellon on the next Sabbath and "keep a meeting" at his house.

  2. They had a serious conversation about the state of affairs, and Barclay, like Penn, sincerely sympathised with the royal culprit in his troubles.

  3. He distinctly heard the Boers sympathised with, the British Government blamed.

  4. Not before that fellow Jolyon, who sympathised with her!

  5. It was clear that she sympathised with Bunyan, or, rather, believed him entitled to a modicum of wholesome grief, the loss of wives being a canonised and legal, sorrow.

  6. I don't want to be forgiven and sympathised with.

  7. George perceived well enough that his father's pride would not let him write to her, and though it was for himself that his mother had taken this step, he sympathised with his father.

  8. She was sure, at all events, of being neither condemned nor sympathised with.

  9. In parenthesis it sympathised with Sir Jee in his indisposition.

  10. It was well for the Government that in Lord Clyde there was available to meet the crisis a man who understood and sympathised with the nature and prejudices of the soldier.

  11. He sympathised with them in their occupations and sports, and though the instruction and discipline of the regiment was carried on with great strictness, the best feeling pervaded all ranks.

  12. She had known in the course of her long life many eminent men, and sympathised now in the triumph of the people over the corn laws, as she had in the American victories, with as much ardour as when a girl, though with a wiser mind.

  13. In childhood she had warmly sympathised in the spirit that animated the American Revolution, and Washington had been her hero; later, the interest of her husband in every struggle for freedom had cherished her own.

  14. Non hoec in foedera was the natural reflection of numbers of those who most sympathised with the Tractarian school.

  15. But these younger Liberals were interested in the Tractarian innovators, and, in a degree, sympathised with them as a party of movement who had had the courage to risk and sacrifice much for an unworldly end.

  16. Their warm hearts had sympathised with his grief.

  17. The son had been offered employment in New York by a relative who had sympathised with the South in her struggle; and he had gone away from Clarendon.

  18. In Yeddo, with this nondescript political status, and cut off from any means of livelihood, he was joyfully supported by those who sympathised with his design.

  19. She succeeded so fully in concealing the struggle against the claims of her wearied body that Els, after joyously perceiving how faithfully her sister sympathised with her own delight, continued to relate what she had just heard.

  20. He sympathised enthusiastically with the French Revolution so long as he took it to utter the simple republican sentiment congenial to a small society of farmers and shepherds.

  21. It specially affected Samuel Johnson and John Wesley, and many of those who sympathised more or less with Wesley's movement.

  22. He entirely sympathised with Crabbe's substitution of the real living brutish clown for the unreal swain of Arcadia; that is, for developing poetry by making it thoroughly realistic even at the cost of being prosaic.

  23. She was received warmly, for Joe sympathised with her affectionate and self-denying spirit, and Mrs Joe believed in her.

  24. Being a man of strict probity and punctuality in all business matters, and being much respected and sympathised with by his numerous business friends, he experienced little difficulty in doing so.

  25. Those in the town who sympathised with Luther made common cause with the rebels.

  26. His opponents, who sympathised with the lot of the vanquished, asked why he did not also admonish the authorities who were not pious.

  27. He is here addressing Duke Johann, the Elector’s brother, who sympathised with his cause and to whom, in the Preface, the work is dedicated.

  28. That, no doubt, would be a most unpleasant event; and she entirely sympathised with everybody who wished to avoid it.

  29. His sentiments and wishes sympathised with hers, as perfectly as two accordant strings, of which when the one is struck, the other voluntarily trembles to the self-same note.

  30. From the true soul, however, I concealed these deadly Night Thoughts; seeing she would either painfully have sympathised in them, or else mirthfully laughed at them.

  31. Here was Mirepoix owning himself a treacherous wretch, a conspirator against a woman; we sympathised with him.

  32. Disraeli, when his turn came to speak, was not ashamed to say that, though he disapproved of the Charter, he sympathised with the Chartists.

  33. We sympathised with him in his fierce struggle with supreme prejudice and sublime mediocrity, with inveterate foes and with candid friends.

  34. The Radical chief sympathised with both of them.

  35. The old lady, deeply as she sympathised with Beth, and loved her, did not realise how morbidly sensitive she was; and accordingly worked on her feelings until the fear of God got hold of her.

  36. She sympathised deeply with her mother, and was full of grief herself for her sister, to whom she had been tenderly attached although they had seen so little of each other.

  37. At the beginning of the term they would not have sympathised perhaps; but this was the middle, and many of them were in much the same mood themselves.

  38. For a hundred years the people of Poland had sympathised to some extent with the reforming movement in Bohemia.

  39. He sympathised with the purpose of his meetings.

  40. I was all on tenter-hooks to hear the "plan," and I could see that the stranger sympathised with my impatience.

  41. Clarence Payne, it is true, had given me no definite advice as yet, but it was a comfort to know that he, to a great extent, understood and certainly sympathised with my position.

  42. As when her own marriage had occurred, all the nation sympathised with Her Majesty.

  43. The favourite himself sympathised with the tender joy of his royal master; and, before the king, voluntarily offered himself as a peace-sacrifice.

  44. Moreover, although the majority were wholly opposed to the doctrinal views held by Luther, many of its members sympathised with his desire for reform in matters of Church government and discipline.

  45. He continued to puff at his pipe for a time with slight embarrassment, as I thought--and I fully sympathised with him.

  46. So when I felt very lonely, I used to come here and look at Artemidorus and make believe that he knew all the sadness of my life and sympathised with me.

  47. The woman who sympathised with the young Englishman was still only a girl; and although a daughter of the sindico, or chief magistrate, of the place, she could do nothing to rescue him from his persecutors.

  48. It was suspected that he sympathised with that party of liberal views, fast growing in influence, and who, under the inspiration of Mazzini, was threatening an Italian republic.

  49. The sindico too had claims upon them; for it was known to their leaders that he had long secretly sympathised with their cause, his oath of office keeping him from any open demonstrations in their favour.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sympathised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.