sympathies

Example Sentences

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"We know everyone's thoughts and sympathies will be with her devastated family," he added.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Auden ultimately felt that his poem was propaganda, and his sympathies came to lie rather with the common person trampled under the march of History.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Ben Maguire, Liberal Democrat MP for North Cornwall, expressed his sympathies to employees, who he said would be "really anxious and uncertain".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

“Our deepest sympathies go to the deputy’s family and to our law enforcement colleagues and fellow runners at LASD,” the office said on X.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

But as the war progressed, American sympathies increasingly favored the Allies.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman