“I sympathize with their plight, and I sympathize with them for all they've been through.”

“Boshra feels that most senior editors sympathize with the reporters' sentiments, but have more to lose if they speak out.”

“Although we understand Aileen's reasoning, we neither sympathize nor empathize with her.”

“And it's easy to sympathise with that, after years of supposedly happy marriage suddenly collapsing around her.”

“This is colder and more dispassionate, with a lead character who we're supposed to sympathise with, but who kills for a living.”

“But those who understand the frailties of human nature will find it easier to suspend disbelief, and even sympathise a bit.”

“As a writer, someone who spends a lot of time in his own head, he sympathises with Barney's sense of dislocation.”

“Others feel the need for a bit of encouragement, a sense that the preacher understands or better still sympathises with the compulsions of their lives.”

“Featuring some very funny song-and-dance numbers, here's a film that both sympathises and sends up the felt fogies without being mean-spirited.”

“One, shame on you for missing their Toronto dates, and two, the band sympathizes with you.”

“He encourages Dante to learn from what he sees and reprimands Dante when he sympathizes with the sinners.”

“The Prime Minister has said that he sympathizes with people who have recently lost their jobs.”

“A few minutes sufficed to disentomb the skeleton, for the men sympathised with their young comrade, and worked with all their energies.”

“But have you ever sympathised with road protesters, anti-nuclear demonstrators or those who tear up genetically modified crops?”

“Ives may have sympathised with progressive ideas and there are occasional glimpses of the avant-garde in the Art Palace selection.”

“Her aunt and uncle understood and sympathized with her mother, feeling bad that someone in their family suffered a divorce.”

“Lilith had sympathized with her opinion of them being dimwitted creatures that were destroying the earth.”

“He was fiercely attacked, and even some figures who privately sympathized with his views were too cowed to defend him publicly.”

“The audience finds themselves sympathising with and loathing the character at the same time.”

“Anyone expressing trenchant anti-monarchist views is now suspected of sympathising with Irish republicanism's most fanatical fringe.”

“Then the liberal boofheads get going with their moralising puke, and many people end up sympathising with the guilty star.”

“Forces on both sides frequently terrorized unarmed civilians suspected of sympathizing with the enemy.”

“And instead of complying and sympathizing, Barnett portrayed himself as the most chauvinistic man in a chauvinistic sport.”

“All he can do is to intellectualize about this experience, sympathizing with it the best he can.”