Example Sentences

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Cruz and Kellyman have commiserated over the constant disappointment they’ve felt when the queer story lines teased in other films and TV shows fail to materialize.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2022

If your neighbor were a normal person, you’d immediately have told him what happened, and you all would have commiserated over this terrible accident.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2021

I was learning about tragic archetypes like Balzac’s Père Goriot, who might have commiserated with Shakespeare’s King Lear.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2021

Back home in the United States, I would have nudged the nearest fellow passenger, shook my head, and we would have commiserated in voices meant to be overheard about the delay.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2013

Poor Philip was in a state of mind which even his worst enemy might have commiserated.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram