Example Sentences

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“I personally like to think about the consumer as being sentimentally weak but fundamentally sound.”

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

I often said I would have to quit if I lost that book — until its value eventually became irrelevant, except sentimentally.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

In later years, Jewish studies professors have been less kind, complaining that Harnick's lyrics and Joseph Stein's book sentimentally sanitized the shtetl and misrepresented both Judaism and eastern European life.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023

Tightly controlled yet somehow relaxed, Lewis gives a performance in which the coldblooded manipulator and the sentimentally loyal bro coexist at every moment.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

She thought a little sentimentally about Léonce and the children, and wondered what they were doing.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin