SYMPATHIZE in a Sentence

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But he saw and recognized an unmistakable growing enthusiasm, uniting all classes, with which it was impossible not to sympathize.

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 Meanings and Examples of SYMPATHIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sympathize
 v.  understand and care about someone's problems
 v.  support and agree with someone or something
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  I quite sympathize with the rage of the English democracy against what they call the vices of the upper orders.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  "I can sympathize with everything except suffering," said Lord Henry, shrugging his shoulders.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  I cannot sympathize with that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
4  One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  Well," said he, extending his hand to Monte Cristo, "I suppose you have come to sympathize with me, for indeed misfortune has taken possession of my house.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 104. Danglars Signature.
6  There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathize with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 111. Expiation.
7  I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
8  But he saw and recognized an unmistakable growing enthusiasm, uniting all classes, with which it was impossible not to sympathize.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 1
9  Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY
10  I do understand," said Rhett, "but I'm damned if I sympathize.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  I sincerely sympathize with you in your trouble.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
12  It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
13  Clerval had never sympathized in my tastes for natural science; and his literary pursuits differed wholly from those which had occupied me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatly endeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  I sympathized with and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  I sympathize deeply with his family.
2  I must tell you how much I sympathize with you for your loss, Professor.
3  I sympathize with you; I've had a similar unhappy experience myself.
4  The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
5  He would whip them into a frenzy with tirades against blacks and their traitorous white sympathizers.