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Sentence using the word compassion. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use compassion in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for compassion.

  • Give me no silly, compassion! (10)
  • Compassion thrilled her. (10)
  • You had a divine compassion. (1)
  • Have a little compassion on my nerves. (4)
  • It is not compassion I want, I want you. (10)
  • The compassion was fervent, and pure too. (10)
  • Her situation should secure your compassion. (4)
  • But just a little compassion for the devoted. (10)
  • But was it compassion that stirred in his soul? (12)
  • But who has any compassion for a burdened donkey? (10)
  • Jon felt a twitch of compassion for the-young idiot. (8)
  • Gnarmag-Zote looked upon me with something like compassion. (7)
  • Her compassion for me only tentatively encouraged the idea. (10)
  • It is impossible for one who has any compassion in his soul. (8)
  • I should not have compassion for those lofty birds, the hawks. (10)
  • In Jolyon compassion was checked by the tone of that close voice. (8)
  • Ellen Kenton still piqued his curiosity, still touched his compassion. (9)
  • Marianne looked with amazement at Edward, with compassion at her sister. (4)
  • He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion. (4)
  • Circus performers are persons of large and unwearied charity and compassion. (21)
  • Joe looked round at him, and a gleam of compassion twinkled in his greenish eyes. (8)
  • He dropped his head in a fit attitude for compassion; but she poured no pity upon it. (9)
  • He wrote very bitterly, but it was hard to feel compassion for his offended stomach. (10)
  • She thought it over, and felt a slight drag of compassion for the reluctant bridegroom. (10)
  • But, withal, she never lost her queer dull compassion for the owner of that white carved face. (8)
  • Proud that in a cause of compassion and honour, he had been able to get the better of himself. (4)
  • The grief for which he could ask no compassion had at least purified him to meet her embrace. (10)
  • Harriet, Harriet, do not deceive yourself; do not be run away with by gratitude and compassion. (4)
  • Saving for the tender compassion weeping over her mother, she had not much acute personal grief. (10)
  • In spite of the mischief of his attentions, she owed him gratitude and regard, perhaps compassion. (4)
  • She understood these ladies and their compassion for Alice, and she did not in the least resent it. (9)
  • He poured a little runlet of half laughter over her head, of the sound assumed by genial compassion. (10)
  • In paying this visit she was moved not so much by compassion, as by uneasiness, and a strange curiosity. (8)
  • Compassion for her blameless fellow in misery brought a deluge to sweep away institutions and landmarks. (10)
  • Emma dropped a heavy sigh in pity of her, remotely in compassion for Redworth, the loving and unbeloved. (10)
  • I named them occasionally out of compassion, and to please my father, who said that they ought to have a turn. (10)
  • But he thought of Genevieve with something of the same tenderness, and with a compassion that was for her alone. (9)
  • She told the pathetic half of her story, to suit the gentle ear, whose critical keenness was lost in compassion. (10)
  • The patronizing compassion of Mrs. Horn for the Leightons filled him with indignation toward her, toward himself. (9)
  • Coloured by the emotion she was burning from, these words smote Georgiana with a mournful compassion for Merthyr. (10)
  • His pity for her, and his eager championship, overwhelmed the spirit of compassion for the foolish wretched husband. (10)
  • One learns to have compassion for fools, by studying them: and the fool, though Nature is wise, is next door to Nature. (10)
  • One learns to have compassion for fools, by studying them: and the fool, though Nature is wise, is next door to Nature. (22)
  • He hung his head, abashed, suffering, with eyes shut, lips trembling; and her heart felt again that quiver of compassion. (8)
  • I may have been infected by the air of compassion, of scientific compassion, which prevailed in the place. (9)
  • She looked at Mrs. Bellew, on whose face was a kind of inquisitive compassion, with eyes that had never before held hatred. (8)
  • The victory of the ashen laurels drove her mind inward to gird at the hateful yoke, in compassion for its pair of victims. (10)
  • Arabella and Cornelia heard one another mouthing these dreadful things, with a wretched feeling of contemptuous compassion. (10)
  • He imagined how he would say it, and she would laugh; but she would be full of a ravishing compassion for his past suffering. (9)
  • All this became gradually evident, and gradually placed Susan before her sister as an object of mingled compassion and respect. (4)
  • Mrs. March came away tingling with compassion for their evident anxiety, and this pity naturally soured into a sense of injury. (9)
  • Corey had listened with a miserable curiosity and compassion up to a certain moment, when a broad light of hope flashed upon him. (9)
  • With her spirit thus confused, and her mind so at variance with itself, she was really acting on the simple instinct of compassion. (8)
  • Her voice had a tender fall in the closing words, and Westover could fancy how sweet she would make her compassion to the young man. (9)
  • She had smiled at his words, but within herself she felt excitement, scepticism, compassion, and something she did not understand at all. (8)
  • He kept his head admirably, in spite of some excitement, for in addition to compassion, the instincts of the chase were roused within him. (8)
  • She had known that he was miserably yoked, and had respected him when he seemed inclined for compassion without wooing her for tenderness. (10)
  • I confess that I liked her better and better, and before the evening was out I had quite transferred my compassion from the Deerings to her. (9)
  • She had the sympathy, nevertheless, and renewing and increasing with the pulsations of a compassion that she took for her reflective survey. (10)
  • In the latter case, the rashness of an hereditary virgin princess avowing her attachment might pass condoned or cloaked by general compassion. (10)
  • A corresponding sentiment of patient compassion, akin to scorn, is provoked by persons having the opportunity for pathos, and declining to use it. (10)
  • This was placing her in a very uncomfortable situation, and she felt great compassion for Captain Tilney, without being able to hope for his goodwill. (4)
  • Compassion began to stir in their bosoms, and with it an inexplicable sense of shame, which soon threw any power of compassion into the background. (10)

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Definition of compassion:

  • compassion, kom-pash’un, n. fellow-feeling, or sorrow for the sufferings of another: pity. | v.t. to pity. | adjs. compas’sionable, pitiable; compas’sionate, inclined to pity or mercy: merciful. | v.t. to have compassion for: to have pity or mercy upon. | adv. compas’sionately. | n. compas’sionateness. (0)

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