sentimental

Example Sentences

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“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

A chipper melodicist who never attempted to disguise his sentimental streak, Sedaka emerged at the moment rock ’n’ roll’s initial big bang started to fizzle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

As a sentimental person with a possible hoarding issue, for me, decluttering can feel devastating.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

Viollet-le-Duc’s conception of Gothic architecture, shorn of religious, sentimental and romantic associations, was radically modern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 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