Sample Sentences for
condolence
(editor-reviewed)

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    I could all too easily picture the smug expressions of condolence I'd receive from those who'd been certain of my failure from the get-go.  (source)
    condolence = sympathy
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    In front of the adults, Esperanza modeled Mama's refined manners, accepting Marisol's condolences.  (source)
    condolences = expression of sympathy
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    And on the morning of the sixteenth, when I asked him whether I should offer him my congratulations or my condolences, he replied that either one would do.  (source)
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    Please accept my condolences.  (source)
    condolences = an expression of sympathy to another who is in sorrow
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    Thousands of people—literally thousands—had left condolence messages for her.†  (source)
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    She condoled with me in her own peculiar way; saying she wished that I and all my grandmother's family were at rest in our graves, for not until then should she feel any peace about us.†  (source)
    editor's notes: This is a verb from of the more commonly seen, condolence or condolences.
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    One Sunday, when my aunt had received simultaneous visits from the Cure and from Eulalie, and had been left alone, afterwards, to rest, the whole family went upstairs to bid her good night, and Mamma ventured to condole with her on the unlucky coincidence that always brought both visitors to her door at the same time.†  (source)
    editor's notes: This is the verb from of the more commonly seen, condolence or condolences.
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    "How sweet people are," she said faintly, as though the gale were a private misfortune of her own for which the world in its love was condoling with her.†  (source)
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    perhaps he condoles with me, does he?†  (source)
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    All kept still, waiting to see who would break silence, which the Distressed Duenna did in these words: "I am confident, most mighty lord, most fair lady, and most discreet company, that my most miserable misery will be accorded a reception no less dispassionate than generous and condolent in your most valiant bosoms, for it is one that is enough to melt marble, soften diamonds, and mollify the steel of the most hardened hearts in the world; but ere it is proclaimed to your hearing, not to say your ears, I would fain be enlightened whether there be present in this society, circle, or company, that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote de la Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza."†  (source)
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    You offered tassali, condolences, for the death of a parent,  (source)
    condolences = expression of sympathy
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    They babble words of condolence at Gita.†  (source)
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    Kindly, as usual — and, as usual, rather trite — she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.†  (source)
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