SENTIMENTALIZE in a Sentence

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241 example sentences for SENTIMENTALIZE, such as:
1. There's no room for sentiment in business.
2. An admirable sentiment, but do lower your voice.
3. This is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
4. Public sentiment is against any change to the law.
5. He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SENTIMENTALIZE
sentimentalize
 v.  act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
 v.  make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And however one might sentimentalize it, this sex business was one of the most ancient, sordid connexions and subjections.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  An admirable sentiment, but do lower your voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  There was in Lily a vein of sentiment, perhaps transmitted from this source, which gave an idealizing touch to her most prosaic purposes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  She fled from the steam-roller of his sentiment.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
5  Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
6  For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
7  He contributed regularly to the Protestant churches, 'for sentiment's sake,' as he said with a flourish of the hand.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
8  She had spent too much of her life taking care of animals to have much sentiment about them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  Kindness of heart,' he went on, staring at the ceiling, 'sentiment, are not understood in a place like this.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
10  Those negroes who are attempting to make the lynching of individuals of their race a means for arousing the worst passions of their kind are playing with a dangerous sentiment.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Public sentiment has had a slight "reaction" though not sufficient to stop the crusade of lawlessness and lynching.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  The strong arm of the law must be brought to bear upon lynchers in severe punishment, but this cannot and will not be done unless a healthy public sentiment demands and sustains such action.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  They will be aided in so doing by the same partisan public sentiment which passed the law.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  The sentiment which she entertained for Robert in no way resembled that which she felt for her husband, or had ever felt, or ever expected to feel.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  During the holidays especially, we tend to over sentimentalize family relationships, getting frustrated when it isn't necessarily so.
2  He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
3  This is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
4  Nationalist sentiment has increased in the area since the bombing.
5  There's no room for sentiment in business.
6  Public sentiment is against any change to the law.
7  I don't long for luxurious life and gorgeous appearance , but I need a complete in habitation for sentiment.
8  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.
9  A section of defeat's sentiment most abstains from is,never forgets.
10  However this sentiment is also shared by most of my male friends, a significant portion of whom are game lovers.
11  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard.
12  The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
13  I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.
14  The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
15  Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.