sentimental
Example Sentences
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It gets a little sentimental and a little serious in the clutch; there will be closure, self-realization and ego death.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
It is not sentimental to care about this, it is babyish to think it means nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
“It has been a challenge going from the scandal to relationship to miscarriage to arrest to being pregnant again,” she says as a sentimental melody lilts in the background.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
The album's title, Arirang, is also the name of Korea's most beloved folk song, a sentimental anthem about moving from hardship towards something better.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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