COMMISERATE in a Sentence

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Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMMISERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
commiserate
 v.  feel or express pity or sympathy for
Classic Sentence:
1  Listen to my tale; when you have heard that, abandon or commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  "He was a world of trouble to you, ma'am," said Mrs. Hubble, commiserating my sister.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
3  It has inspired me with great commiseration, and I hope I understand it and its influences.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLIX
4  The reverence that I had for his grey head, was mingled with commiseration for his faith in those who were treacherous to him, and with resentment against those who injured him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
5  'She was quite overcome, I am afraid,' said Mr. Dick, with great commiseration.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
6  "You understand everything, I see, and have taken stock of everything, and look with commiseration on my shortcomings," he began again, raising his voice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
7  Lily murmured her commiseration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
8  Lily drew away with a movement of quick disdain: it was easier to endure his insolence than his commiseration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
9  They expressed commiseration for that part of the army which had been left upon the river bank, felicitating themselves upon being a part of a blasting host.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  Tom in various ways manifested a tenderness of feeling, a commiseration for his fellow-sufferers, strange and new to them, which was watched with a jealous eye by Legree.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  Many were the cries of astonishment and of commiseration which arose from them when they perceived the youth of one of the strangers and the destitution of the other.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
12  Even the common people, the severest critics of the conduct of their betters, had commiseration with the follies of Prior Aymer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart wished to help him but could not.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
14  I thanked him with tears of commiseration; and instead of taking me to Italy he conducted me to Algiers, where he sold me to the Dey.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
Example Sentence:
1  Her friends commiserate with the widow.