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How to use sentiment in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Sentiment means a general thought, feeling, or sense. Example: “The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.”

Examples of sentiment by meaning

nounA general thought, feeling, or sense.

  • The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
  • Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

nounFeelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

  • Good decision-making is not governed by mere sentiment.
  • To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99
  • To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5...

More sentences with sentiment

  • Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative.From the entry antimonarchical
  • He voiced the sentiments of the nation.From the entry voice
  • Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.From the entry inspire
  • It was an old love song playing on the radio, full of sentiment and sappinesss. It made me feel alone and sad.From the entry sappiness
  • During the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, Miguel played down his immigrant status by removing Chicano patois from his speech and adopting the nickname "Mike."From the entry play down
  • A factory discharged waste into the river, but officials insisted it posed no danger. There was a sentiment of "nothing to see here".From the entry nothing to see here
  • While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment.From the entry flop
  • The housing crisis is now a “catalyst” for anti-immigrant sentiment, an Irish parliamentary committee warned in November.2023 December 11, Rory Hearne, “Ireland’s housing crisis is a disaster for its people – and a gift to far-right fearmongers”, in The…. From the entry catalyst
  • “You need some big bazooka action to improve sentiment as a whole.”2022 August 24, Thomas Hale, Cheng Leng, Hudson Lockett, “Investors price in $130bn loss on China developers’ dollar bonds”, in Financial…. From the entry bazooka
  • Reactionary motifs are chic: Trump hats and “tradwife” frocks, monarchist and anti-feminist sentiments.2022 August 9, Julia Yost, “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry tradwife
  • Apart from acting, Wongkrachang was also an active participant in Thailand's politics, known for his pro-royalist sentiments.2021 December 1, Tuba Waqar, “Thai and Korean netizens oppose debut of H1-Key's Sitala over father's alleged support of dictatorship”, in…. From the entry orchestrator
  • Anti-American sentiment will grow, and Europe risks a retreat to protectionism.2019 February 21, Guy Verhofstadt, “A Trump trade war with Europe would hurt the trans-Atlantic relationship”, in CNN. From the entry nationalist
  • Baltiel had always been the iceman, harsh and distant and lacking in sentiment.2019, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin, Macmillan, pages 267–268. From the entry iceman
  • The merch is proof of how much the sentiment resonates with people.2019 October 19, “'OK Boomer' Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations”, in NY Times. From the entry merch
  • Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time.2016 July 1, A[nthony] C[lifford] Grayling, “Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs urging Parliament not to support a motion to…. From the entry ochlocracy
  • As a sentiment, then, agential anger evaluates its object as “angersome,” as meriting anger.2015, David Shoemaker, Responsibility from the Margins. From the entry angersome
  • Where other visitors exuded sentiment by the libraryful, Whymper remained cold, indifferent and judgemental.2011, Fergus Fleming, Killing Dragons: The Conquest Of The Alps. From the entry libraryful
  • These words may seem a bit harsh, but they were supposedly said with a loving sentiment.2008, Theresa Renee White, Media as Pedagogy and Socializing Agent. From the entry who shot John
  • Rap duo The Coup evokes Black Pantheresque sentiments of revolution in songs such as “Get Up.”2007 February, Andrew Klein, “Bring Hip Hop Back to Its Roots”, in Julia Arnous, editor, Boston Latin School Argo, volume XXXX, number IV…. From the entry black pantheresque
  • Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.2003, Scott D. Zachary, Scorn This, page 175. From the entry thorn
  • But I don't think Eliot expected the kind of anticar sentiment that we're about.2003 March 28, Cara Jepsen, “Car and Rider”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry anticar
  • Does it surprise anyone else at the fervor of anti-rowing sentiment at many colleges and schools?1998 September 12, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: Are Men and Women Different?”, in Independent Rowing News, volume 5, number 15…. From the entry antibaseball
  • I agree with most of your sentiments about Tarantino and his use of violence as comedy.1994 December 6, Fern Cervantes, “Devil worshipping mom beaters”, in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet). From the entry chillax
  • Will's figures, if correct, serve to underscore the extent of apolitical and anti-political sentiment in our community.1983 December 31, Robert P. Wasson Jr., “"Whither BL/GPA?"—A Response”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 5. From the entry recrimination
  • Therefore, the ecologists who deplore the elimination of a species are not merely appealing to our sentiment.1980 July, James E. Lovelock, “Living Planet Earth”, in Omni, volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124, column 3. From the entry Gaia
  • You know many Mormons may not like Reverend Falwell, but they'll certainly resound his sentiments.1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8. From the entry resound
  • The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a "gaum" of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say.1978, Editorials on File, volume 9, number 2, page 1392. From the entry gaum
  • The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.1943, C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man. From the entry inculcate
  • I ain't sayin' I don't share your sentiments, Buck, but you're a born fool.1939 February 2, Dudley Nichols, Stagecoach (motion picture), spoken by Marshal Curley Wilcox (George Bancroft), Hollywood, Los Angeles…. From the entry ornery
  • Certainly, a play upon words would have been much in the sentiment of the seventeenth century.1930 July 6, “Is It True That Morley Is Lamb’s Inheritor?”, in The Vancouver Sunday Province, number 100, Vancouver, B.C., section “A…. From the entry taphology
  • The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her.1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. From the entry jazz
  • These sentiments prevailed throughout his life; perhaps not to the very close of it.1923, A. J. Howcroft, “Chimney J⸺”, in Tales of a Pennine People, H. C. Lee, Whitehead & Co Ltd, page 168. From the entry pleasuredom
  • Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC, page…. From the entry decorous
  • The writing was unmistakingly that of Liza Mary—the sentiment as unmistakingly that of Violet Rose.1912, The Painter and Decorator, volume 26, page 79. From the entry unmistakingly
  • First, we introduce a comprehensive taxonomy of sentiment toward trans and nonbinary communities, grounded in sociological and gender studies frameworks.2025 May 25, Maxyn Rose Leitner, Rebecca Dorn, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman, “Characterizing Network Structure of Anti-Trans Actors on…. From the entry exorsexism

Meaning of sentiment

  1. noun A general thought, feeling, or sense.
  2. noun Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

Full definition of sentiment

Questions about sentiment in a sentence

How do you use sentiment in a sentence?
Sentiment is used as a noun. For example: “The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.”
What is a short sentence with sentiment?
“He voiced the sentiments of the nation.”
What does sentiment mean?
Sentiment means a general thought, feeling, or sense.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sentiment (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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