SENTIMENTAL in a Sentence

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1. Anything sentimental stirred her.
2. Similar sentiments were expressed by many politicians.
3. The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
4. He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
5. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

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 Meanings and Examples of SENTIMENTAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sentimental
 a.  emotional, resulting from emotion rather than reason or realism
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The more sentimental were inclined to view that the black sheep of the Butler family had repented of his evil ways and was making an attempt to atone for his sins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Anything sentimental stirred her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  After all, a man had to make some concessions to his bride, especially about the wedding, for women set such a store by sentimental things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  To Scarlett, scarcely wanting her coming child and irritated at its untimeliness, this attitude seemed the height of sentimental stupidity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  It seemed to her that all Southern men, high or low, were sentimental fools and cared less for their hides than for words which had no meaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  Selden glanced at her with amusement: it was impossible, even with her lovely eyes imploring him, to take a sentimental view of her case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  She was fond of pictures and flowers, and of sentimental fiction, and she could not help thinking that the possession of such tastes ennobled her desire for worldly advantages.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  I came with Gerty Farish, and promised not to let her miss the train, but I am sure she is still extracting sentimental solace from the wedding presents.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  Trenor had married young, and since his marriage his intercourse with women had not taken the form of the sentimental small-talk which doubles upon itself like the paths in a maze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  He had reason to think that his three months of engrossing professional work, following on the sharp shock of his disillusionment, had cleared his mind of its sentimental vapours.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  If this were the case, his return showed that the struggle had been unsuccessful, for Lily knew he was not the man to waste his time in an ineffectual sentimental dalliance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garlands.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Marshall Field's man, Anson Kirkpatrick, played the piano and sang all the latest sentimental songs.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
16  The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
17  Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
18  All these noble sentiments have little chance of being put into practice.
19  Similar sentiments were expressed by many politicians.
20  All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
21  We are likely to develop virtue-derailing sentiments, first becoming indifferent to harming others, then morally numb, then eventually evil beings.
22  After volunteers helped canvass the sentiments of his constituents, the congressman was confident that he represented the majority opinion of his district.
23  "I'm completely surprised," said Gartner analyst Brian Blau, summing up the sentiments of many investors who've watched Facebook's stock price stagnate over the past year.
24  The site's constant stream of experiences, opinions and sentiments has spawned a vast commercial ecosystem, serving up putative insights to product developers, Hollywood studios, major retailers and other investors.
25  He was the first artist to depict the Highland landscape without sentimentality.
26  The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
27  Irritatingly cheerful, always looking on the bright side, Pollyanna speaks nothing but treacly sentimentalities.
28  Black color is sentimentally bad but, every black board makes the students life bright.
29  During the holidays especially, we tend to over sentimentalize family relationships, getting frustrated when it isn't necessarily so.
30  He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.