sentimental

Example Sentences

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"It sounds sentimental, but he said: 'dad had the last word'."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 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

Nor was he sentimental about jettisoning poor performers, insisting that “my obligation was to the living, not the dead.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

He is an obvious sentimental favorite; he is trained by Mark Glatt, whose wife of 25 years, Dena, died Feb. 12 from cardiac arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

“You know he wasn’t sentimental like that. He would want you to eat it now.”

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson