Sample sentences for COMMISERATE

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Definition

to feel or express sympathy or compassion for another

Commiseration and Rapport.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

"Sir," said Captain Speedy, who was now deeply interested in Mr. Fogg's project, "I really commiserate you.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
The speakers were commiserating with somebody lyrically.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Richter's office, commiserating with Rasmussen or those Strategy instructors who had not been imprisoned.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
I was Madame Ngemba, someone to commiserate with in the market over the price of fruit, the mother of children who sought mischief with theirs.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
There were commiserations from the others, and many, many stories about pneumonia.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)

I commiserated their case, and resolved to endeavor procuring them some relief.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
She told me, with assumed commiseration, that I had an unhappy temper.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

Friends stopped by my bunk at the barracks to commiserate and tell me it wasn't so bad being kicked out of flying.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Mostly the messages expressed varying degrees of shock, outrage and commiseration.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer

Then people commiserated her— "What a pity! she had so much talent!"
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
Compassionate and, so to say, commiserating these people, I am ready to overlook it even now in spite of the personal insult lavished upon me!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
The adults headed down to the basement to commiserate or whatever, leaving the three of us alone in the living room.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
I felt as if he had greater commiseration for me than I had ever had for myself.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House

Ron and Hermione both gave Harry half-exasperated, half-commiserating looks.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
His large face overhead flowed over with commiseration and pleasure.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

"Pobre," she said in commiseration.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

Lily murmured her commiseration.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth

I pull back from the macspattered toilet, feel a fleeting sense of shame and commiseration for Manuela.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical

Commiseration has, and should have, its curiosity.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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