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Meanings of sentimental in English
Usage of sentimental in English
1
The morning breeze is to the strong the moonlight of the sentimental.
2
The defense of reputation has two aspects: the practical and the sentimental.
3
But it's not a fluffy, cute or sentimental story, quite the contrary.
4
No; it was not a sentimental story-itwas the old sea-fight again.
5
Businesses were not sentimental just because there was a ceasefire, she said.
6
Perhaps it had been all the sentimental talk that made him snap.
7
The other lingered, his sentimental eyes gleamed silvery in the shadowy face.
8
Octavia had allowed herself to be more sentimental than she perhaps intended.
9
The emphasis on child-welfare has a social rather than a sentimental basis.
10
The sentimental bavardage of boys in love will be lost upon me.
11
She was not engaged in any sentimental musings appropriate to the situation.
12
I am interested in the history of this sentimental, sceptical young rascal.
13
Yet I make this sentimental genuflection before the nun and the charwoman.
14
Eleanor understood those things; Petronilla would have done something sentimental and useless.
15
There are fair video prospects for the documentary among sentimental naturalists afterward.
16
Her penitence was the beginning of the sentimental side of our acquaintance.
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Sentimental through the time
Sentimental across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common