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Example sentences for "sympathising"

Lexicographically close words:
sympathise; sympathised; sympathiser; sympathisers; sympathises; sympathisingly; sympathize; sympathized; sympathizer; sympathizers
  1. Marie, overpowered by the grief of her friend, embraced her cousin with the warm affection of a tender heart sympathising in her painful situation, and all feeling of enmity was in a moment extinguished in her breast.

  2. Bertha smiled, and, sympathising with Barbelle in her embarrassment, felt how painful the taunts of the men must be to her.

  3. Schweinsberg paused, sympathising in his master's pain, who beckoned to him, however, to proceed.

  4. The buxom female shook her head with a compassionate and sympathising air; and, appealing to Sam, inquired whether his father really ought not to make an effort to keep up, and not give way to that lowness of spirits.

  5. I have heard it remarked that she was a very fine woman, Mr. Weller,' said Pell, in a sympathising manner.

  6. An extra-sized umbrella was then handed in by Mr. Dodson, and a pair of pattens by Mr. Fogg, each of whom had prepared a most sympathising and melancholy face for the occasion.

  7. He had lost his kind, sympathising friend, and that at the very moment when he stood most in need of his assistance.

  8. For though Lady Emma was not sympathising by temperament, she was not indifferent to annoyances, and that chilblains should be described by any stronger term she would have thought an exaggeration.

  9. I must allow that papa is more sympathising about physical ills than about some other things.

  10. Aage appeared for a moment to be sleeping soundly; but as the king stood by his couch, and with sympathising sorrow bent over his handsome though pallid face, the Drost suddenly opened his eyes and stared wildly before him.

  11. She burst into a flood of tears, held both her hands before her eyes, and pushed away her sorrowing and sympathising sister, with her pretty elbows.

  12. Margaretha, with sympathising uneasiness, as she returned her ardent demonstrations of affection.

  13. His own rapture (the word is not too strong) in it appears again and again in his poetry, and when it does, Browning is not a man sympathising from without with Nature.

  14. She must tell her tale to some one, so running up to the nursery she found Hester, who listened to her news and was as interested and sympathising as her small charge desired.

  15. Sure of a sympathising listener in her little companion, she poured forth all her sorrows for the present and fears for the future.

  16. They had no longer to choose between sympathising with the enemies of England and sympathising with the suppressors of the old English liberties.

  17. They doffed their hats to her, and looked upon her with sympathising eyes, for many of them recognised her as the sister of the prisoner they held in durance.

  18. Marcelino found Dona Juana and her sister, with Dona Josefina and Dona Constancia, who had spent all the morning with them, sympathising and encouraging their hopes, though every hour brought intelligence of some fresh failure.

  19. He would go to his friend's chamber; Christian Almer would be awake, and they would pass an hour in sympathising converse.

  20. There was Dirdumwhamle sympathising for a something over and aboon what Meg's to get by the will.

  21. Listening to, and sympathising with, Nellie's trouble, Eustace blessed the luck which had brought him that way this morning.

  22. Let us now unite together in the practice of what is good, cherishing a gentle and sympathising heart, and carefully cultivating good faith and righteousness.

  23. He and his four friends had followed Sakyamuni into the Uruvilva desert, sympathising with him in the austerities he endured, and hoping that they would issue in his Buddhaship.

  24. The soldiers sympathising with Parliament, the officers on reaching Nottingham proposed signing an engagement to obey Parliament in all things except the bringing in of Charles Stuart.

  25. Ethel dimly remembered the like sense of relief, when her mother had hushed her wild ecstasy, while sympathising with her joy.

  26. Mrs. May was too sorry for the solitary youth, and too sympathising with her husband, to make any objection, though she was not fond of strangers, and had some anxieties.

  27. But unfortunately it was not only to Mr Bradlaugh himself that violence was used or threatened: those who attended his lectures or who were suspected of sympathising with his opinions sometimes ran considerable risk.

  28. Yes, dear, I know," said Doris, lifting sweet sympathising eyes to his.

  29. Bernard looked at her kind sympathising face and his resolution wavered.

  30. I had a dim vision of a body of runners starting along with us on the banks, and of eager cries to one crew or the other from sympathising onlookers; but I had enough to do to keep my eye fixed ahead, without gaping at the crowd.

  31. But there were different feelings in the breasts of the two sympathising men.

  32. She described the distress of Gertrude when questioning Bridget, which the sympathising cook had heard from her chamber.

  33. He could not help smiling at her childish wrath, nor could he resist sympathising with her in a degree.

  34. I was her teacher, her protector, the partner of all her childish amusements; and she was by turns an advising and sympathising friend.

  35. He had, with all the fire of a hot and ungoverned temper, a woman's depth of feeling, warmth of heart, and sympathising sweetness of manner.

  36. No more than that was told, and his dear sympathising friends were content to receive so much information, and to ask for no more.


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