SENTIMENTAL in a Sentence

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241 example sentences for SENTIMENTAL, such as:
1. Anything sentimental stirred her.
2. There's no room for sentiment in business.
3. I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
4. This is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
5. Public sentiment is against any change to the law.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SENTIMENTAL
sentimental
 a.  given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
 a.  effusively or insincerely emotional
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The more sentimental were inclined to view that the black sheep of the Butler family had repented of his evil ways and was making an attempt to atone for his sins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Anything sentimental stirred her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  After all, a man had to make some concessions to his bride, especially about the wedding, for women set such a store by sentimental things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  To Scarlett, scarcely wanting her coming child and irritated at its untimeliness, this attitude seemed the height of sentimental stupidity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  It seemed to her that all Southern men, high or low, were sentimental fools and cared less for their hides than for words which had no meaning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  Selden glanced at her with amusement: it was impossible, even with her lovely eyes imploring him, to take a sentimental view of her case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  She was fond of pictures and flowers, and of sentimental fiction, and she could not help thinking that the possession of such tastes ennobled her desire for worldly advantages.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  I came with Gerty Farish, and promised not to let her miss the train, but I am sure she is still extracting sentimental solace from the wedding presents.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  Trenor had married young, and since his marriage his intercourse with women had not taken the form of the sentimental small-talk which doubles upon itself like the paths in a maze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  He had reason to think that his three months of engrossing professional work, following on the sharp shock of his disillusionment, had cleared his mind of its sentimental vapours.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
13  If this were the case, his return showed that the struggle had been unsuccessful, for Lily knew he was not the man to waste his time in an ineffectual sentimental dalliance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  I read the French and German of sentimental lovers and Christmas garlands.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  Marshall Field's man, Anson Kirkpatrick, played the piano and sang all the latest sentimental songs.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  The quiet tone of pathos that ran through the novel never degenerated into the maudlin or the overly sentimental.
2  I went back to the Philippines with MacArthur on his final journey there in 1961, what he called his sentimental journey.
3  I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
4  The ring wasn't worth very much but it had great sentimental value.
5  This is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
6  Nationalist sentiment has increased in the area since the bombing.
7  There's no room for sentiment in business.
8  Public sentiment is against any change to the law.
9  I don't long for luxurious life and gorgeous appearance , but I need a complete in habitation for sentiment.
10  Have clean and pure mind, noble sentiment; in each patient with a occupation smile; do not expect anything in return just offer in their heart.
11  A section of defeat's sentiment most abstains from is,never forgets.
12  However this sentiment is also shared by most of my male friends, a significant portion of whom are game lovers.
13  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
14  The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
15  I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.