How to Use empathize in a Sentence

empathize

verb
  • Most of the people in the room could empathize with Palmer.
    Jennifer Miller, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • You, who heard the wink and humor in 'Blank Space' and maybe even empathized with the pain behind the satire.
    Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
  • This film wants to inspire [the audience] to talk and to empathize.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The best way to open our minds and hearts and learn to empathize is to truly listen to others.
    Keith Magee, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • From Allyship To Ourship To empathize is to see the pain of others but not feel it.
    Natasha Bowman, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Get to know your people and their needs, empathize with them, and then take action.
    Cedrick Webb, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Glen Hines said, seeming to empathize with the lieutenant colonel.
    NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • That is not the way anybody uses a dating app, so, again, what was there to do but empathize?
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
  • As for Joe Biden, who could fail to empathize with his weakness for chocolate-chip ice cream?
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Kaeberlein can empathize with loss of a beloved aged pet.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2022
  • And both of us came to this episode from a place of really wanting the audience to empathize with Pam.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Madison, who lived in the Mansion decades after Stratten, empathized with how the young Dorothy must have felt.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The teacher empathizes, having fallen in love as a teenager with a deaf girl.
    Michele Filgate, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • But Lisa perceives this as adults just empathizing with their own.
    Hazlitt, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The takeaway is unclear — are we supposed to empathize?
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Negan tries to empathize, saying that he’s been on the receiving end of a massacre, too.
    Richard Rys, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Your service team should be able to empathize and be understanding of the customer’s pain points.
    Beth Worthy, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • On that front, James seems to empathize with Anderson’s vow to never watch Pam & Tommy.
    Amy Nicholson, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022
  • As God felt pain for humankind, so, too, should all of us, created in God’s image, empathize with the other.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2021
  • But more than that, Love Bags volunteers empathize and give guidance.
    Brittany Edelmann, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Forced to empathize with a character who takes his own life for love, Dan starts to understand and forgive.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Try to empathize with all the families that are impacted.
    Janelle Davis, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Leaders must be open to hearing multiple points of view and trying to empathize with them.
    Neil Khaund, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Mikulak, who’ll be competing in his third Games at 28, can empathize.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2021
  • Trump supporters who just felt the government had let them down and wanted change — and Democrats had to empathize to win these voters.
    Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2021
  • But to a child, whatever's distressing them is a matter of heaven and earth, and a parent should try to empathize with that.
    Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 26 Aug. 2021
  • In his phone call to the Kilburn family, O’Neal, who wears size 22 shoes, empathized with Eric’s predicament.
    Susan Bromley, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Now, amid the pushback against ChatGPT and its ilk, the pendulum has swung back hard, and we’re warned against empathizing with these things.
    Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Clark, who played at Toledo last season, can empathize with those players.
    Mark Stewart, Journal Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2022
  • As always our gaol to deeply empathize with the protagonist.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 21 Oct. 2021

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