How to Use sympathize in a Sentence

sympathize

verb
  • I sympathize but how can I help?
  • How even the courts will sympathize with them.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Others sympathized with the friend and the tight time frame.
    — Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • First, try to sympathize with the parents of a screaming child.
    — Christen A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • These upper-crust elites are ones we’re meant, at the end of the day, to sympathize with and root for.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Hansen said both yellows were fair calls, but sympathized with his players.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Joe sympathized with his younger brother.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
  • Wanted to sympathize warmly in one sure place, turn cold in the other.
    — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Most people just sympathize and wish me a speedy recovery, which is fine.
    — Judith Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 May 2025
  • But both artists are looking forward to getting back in the clubs too and sympathize with their plight.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Again, a good agent will sympathize with you to build that all-important rapport.
    — Lew Sichelman | Andrews McMeel Syndication, courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Readers on the forum sympathized with the teen about the issue.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • At first, a lot of people are probably apt to sympathize with men who are lonely.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Many of us who have played a sport can sympathize with the phenomenon of choking.
    — David Shearer, Quartz, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Some of the justices appeared to sympathize with those concerns.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The worse things get, the more this movie sympathizes with Gary and Irwin for their parts in it.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • Tonioli sympathized that the fox trot is the hardest dance to learn and pointed out lots of mistakes.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • But people who love this town can’t help but sympathize with the narrator’s ex a little bit.
    — Spin Team, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a moral value in sympathizing with the person consigned to this grim work.
    — Michael Friedrich, The New Republic, 24 May 2018
  • The Queen wrote that Danes sympathize with the people of Ukraine.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Almost no one understands or sympathizes with these men.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • We’ve each been flagged, or doxxed, or accused of sympathizing with an enemy.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Now, sympathizing with the paper, my angel turns over an-other page.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The muted colors in the background—the pewter sky, the drab pastel walls, the dead white of the bus—seem to sympathize.
    — Rafał Milach, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no outright preaching, no plea to condemn or sympathize either way.
    — David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Coley is an easy character to sympathize with.
    — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • In fact, protests among Olympic athletes are rare, even among those who may sympathize with human-rights causes.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Hundreds of cat owners sympathized with her ordeal in the comments.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Yet readers are meant to sympathize with the heroine at this moment, not with the woman who’s throwing shade.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Dao felt helpless, and enraged by the comments that seemed to sympathize with the suspect rather than the victims.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2021

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