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Example sentences for "sympathy with"

  • That sight and perception of God's purity which he had here for a brief instant, and which was so painful because he was not in sympathy with it, has now become everlasting.

  • Those who have been coarse and brutish, those who have been selfish and ambitious, those who have been the pests and scourges of the world, have had no sympathy with youth.

  • The sea drowns out humanity and time; it has no sympathy with either; for it belongs to eternity, and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

  • I have no hostility to this institution; I am only stating my want of sympathy with it.

  • I confess that I am not in sympathy with some of the movements that accompany the manifestations of American social and literary independence.

  • Most of the people of southern Illinois were in sympathy with slavery, and consequently the Lovejoys became very unpopular.

  • In sympathy with, and yet not of them, he had the queer privilege of feeling their slights as if they were his own, together with feelings of protection, and even of contempt that they should let themselves be slighted.

  • It seems hard to punish people for stealing bread or turnips, though one must, of course; but I've no sympathy with poachers.

  • And even those who differed with him accused him in practice, not of militarist lack of sympathy with any of those he ruled, but rather with too imaginative a sympathy with some of them.

  • Some said that Shakespeare was only restrained by fear of the powers of his time from expressing his complete sympathy with Shylock.

  • Those men were in Washington, out of reach of and apparently out of sympathy with, the events transpiring at home.

  • She had no sympathy with my project--that she should have was hardly to be expected.

  • There are men who apparently find a pleasure in doing so, and in their case the task is as a rule a particularly easy one, but Dom Clemente had no sympathy with them.

  • It was once more her eyes he looked at, and what he saw there made it clear that the reckless, all-daring something that was in her nature was wholly in sympathy with him.

  • The attitude of suspicion may cause impartiality to be regarded as indifference to truth, fairness as sympathy with error.

  • In my former experience of him, he had talked his way out of all his other troubles--he had clamorously demanded the expression of my sympathy with him.

  • Receiving Oscar with a mouth drawn down at the corners, and a head that shook sadly in sympathy with him, Mrs. Finch's face underwent a most extraordinary transformation when she turned my way next.

  • We will say she did it out of sympathy with you," he proceeded.

  • She did that out of sympathy with me," I said.

  • You had shown no sympathy with my eagerness to be restored to the blessing of sight.

  • I confess that my mind had, more than once, gone out to you as one from whom I should like to have some sign of sympathy with my loss.

  • But I have no sympathy with self-vindication, or the becoming a proxy in vindication, deliberately bought at such a price as that of vitiating revelations--which may even possibly be false.

  • As to the high-flown stuff which is being reproduced about Byron and his poetry, I am utterly out of sympathy with it.

  • He had been so much deprived of the society of children of his own age that he found an inexpressible joy in being with this boy, so learned and well brought up, who was in sympathy with him.

  • And be not surprised that "people have no sympathy with you.

  • Goethe ceased to fight only when he had won; his want of sympathy with the so-called Apostles of Freedom, the stump orators of his day, was genuine and shared by Carlyle.

  • I don't think I'm in sympathy with it at all.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sympathy with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another house; border incidents; bringing them; deep notch; derived from; direct ratio; distance from the sun; doing what; eight children; good spirits; great reader; hand grenades; junior high; little wistfully; opposite page; protracted meeting; shall hereafter; sympathy with; thin voice; this village; twenty days; urged against