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

One way to look at the imagery in these films is as the artistic equivalent of Khan’s Genesis Device, sentimentally resurrecting the cinematic past for viewers.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

“Thass funny. My name’s Smith too. Why,” she added sentimentally, “I might be your mother!”

From "1984" by George Orwell