How to Use commiserate in a Sentence

commiserate

verb

• The players commiserated over their loss in the championship game.
• Passers-by stopped to commiserate with him and to try to lift his spirits.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• There’s a nice moment where Thor and Valkyre get to commiserate a bit about Jane, who is the new kid on the block as a Thor.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
• In the past year, I have been asked many times to reflect and comment and commiserate on the state of our country.
  — Vernon E. Jordan, The New Yorker, 7 June 2017
• Campbell said it’s a good idea for the middle-aged to commiserate their woes with their peers.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Mar. 2022
• The comics Beth Evans draws celebrate you on your good days and can commiserate with you on your bad days.
  — Health.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• In the sweltering heat, few had the bandwidth to commiserate about a conflict half a world away.
  — Raffi Joe Wartanian, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2020
• One day the two were commiserating poolside about the lack of options for parents to meet up with kids in tow.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, showed up to commiserate with Westbrooks.
  — Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• In Azana, Shadowfax and the other Red Pillers soar, swim, and run; cry, laugh, and commiserate.
  — Peter Rubin, WIRED, 29 June 2018
• Sikora believes anyone who’s had to turn their back on their past and make a move to a new place will be able to commiserate.
  — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 4 Feb. 2022
• To the left of the stage, a gaggle of fans partied hard, commiserating with the rapper that not everyone was there to rage.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2023
• The video has been viewed more than 2 millions times, with commenters chiming in to commiserate.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2022
• Havlicek came to the Lakers’ locker room to commiserate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• But even students who haven’t been involved in the campaign have other venues to laugh at and commiserate about it.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2022
• In a truly shocking twist, Genevieve huffs off to go commiserate with… Shanae!
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2022
• Fight scenes give you something to jointly commiserate over or cheer over, if things go well or don’t.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2022
• As everyone gets up to go to the bar for dessert, PK tries to commiserate with Erika about how awkward the silence was.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2021
• Maybe Brown should commiserate about the celebrity dating game with Lucy Hale.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 17 Feb. 2020
• The next morning, Lehman called his colleague, Anderson, to commiserate over what seemed to be the inevitable loss of the three paintings.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• And, if all else fails, feel free to commiserate with fellow parents.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
• In those times, dozens of downtown sports bars stand in the gap and offer beer, grub and a space to celebrate or commiserate with other fans.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2022
• All the lonely hearts commiserate with Bruno Mars on Valentine’s Day.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• Never mind that country music is — or was, a few decades back — the genre people could count on to commiserate in self-pity.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 19 July 2023
• For those who arrived too late to get an Ohtani bobblehead, the Dodgers can commiserate.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
• One goal of the letter was to commiserate with passengers.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2022
• But lately all of them came to commiserate about a job that had become more fraught and unpredictable during the past few months.
  — Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2021
• Not to commiserate — that’s for Liberals — but to help.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 16 Nov. 2023
• Ron commiserated over my lack of progress within the Voice ecosystem.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
• Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, millions of Americans have commiserated with the plight of Ukrainian refugees who are being forced to flee their country.
  — Ana Raquel Minian, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024