compassion

Example Sentences

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The compassion and humanity he showed throughout that time said a great deal about him as a person.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Cather renders Don’s roiling inner life with compassion as he struggles to arrive at a firmer sense of himself and his art.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Boosting isn’t a solution, but it is an equalizer, reminding upper management that a different title and fatter salary don’t exempt them from compassion, inside or outside the store.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

A wave of compassion and concern could have flooded poor and working-class communities in honor of the late Martin Luther King Jr. All of this could have happened, but it didn’t.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander