How to Use empathy in a Sentence

empathy

noun

• He felt great empathy with the poor.
• His months spent researching prison life gave him greater empathy towards convicts.
• Most of us avert our eyes and shut down our empathy and emotions.
  — Jeremy Barber, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
• Thankfully, the season is no less lucid in its observations or its sense of empathy.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2022
• Having empathy allows a company to adjust to the needs of its employees to a certain point.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2024
• The style of the film creates a sense of empathy and understanding that taps into a deep current of emotion that can be at times overwhelming.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
• If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught leaders, it’s that empathy is more important than ever to support employees.
  — Byamber Burton, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2022
• The expedient relations between empathy and sadism, the possibility that the two words might name the same feeling, is a large theme in the book.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• All the elements come together to create a show that doesn’t sit you down for a lecture, but rather treats the cultural and emotional baggage around hair with empathy and love.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Oct. 2022
• But what the show ends up doing is withholding empathy for its protagonist, who looks increasingly sociopathic with each death that washes over her.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2024
• Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• Michelle Pemberton Reflecting upon the year behind me, I'm struck by the value of empathy and those who possess it.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2024
• The affection streaming through the camera is palpable; so is the empathy, the exasperation and the occasional shame.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• The pandemic thrust people’s relationship to work to the forefront and meant that employees started demanding a greater degree of empathy from their employers.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
• In the past, there has been more empathy across the aisles.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2023
• Many of the people who make the rules lack the empathy to run this place.
  — Daniel White, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2024
• And yet the song is a thing of beauty, rich with empathy.
  — Scott Stroud, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• It would also be linked to the degree of empathy in the man.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
• Kindness comes first, and empathy is the key to growth.
  — Steve Schering, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2021
• Asha, the hero of the kingdom Rosas, is a conduit for empathy.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
• Take a minute to have a little empathy and think about the receiver of the care.
  — Veronica Mitchell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 May 2018
• That is, a truly good thrill comes from a place of empathy.
  — Seth Combs Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
• That has a lot to do with the company’s strong sense of empathy.
  — Celeste Mora, Quartz at Work, 20 Aug. 2020
• Barham felt like the empathy of Adeem’s writing was enough to sway them.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
• And what that told me is this is a question about empathy.
  — cleveland, 17 Apr. 2021
• Of course, this new study does more than find meager empathy for the out-group.
  — Wired, 9 Nov. 2019
• There wouldn’t be much empathy here if the answer weren’t the latter.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
• That means that, for me, this is a film defined by empathy.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Oct. 2022
• For all of its seeming perks, empathy can be a hard sell.
  — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
• But the empathy, Bosh wrote in his blog, also was because of style of play.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 13 Jan 2025