Sentence examples for sentimental thing from inspiring English sources
"To me, it's a sentimental thing," she said.
"This is a sentimental thing," she said, "not something to write with".
Neither man expected Oyster Bay to flout the law and do the sentimental thing.
I didn't want him playing first base to end that game, and it was not any sentimental thing that I had for Billy Buck".
Winning Father's Approval The sentimental thing is to believe that her achievements have filled the sails of all Kenyan women.
(Come to think of it, Jean-Luc Godard has done the same sentimental thing in Origins of the 21st Century, though the comparison of these two directors is best left there).
I just have to go out there and forget all the sentimental things and play basketball.
And in these olden days, the jerk-off hand motion with eye-rolling had not yet been invented so that one could express disdain for sentimental things.
He played a subdued version of his recent hit "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," a clever song built around a self-referential confession: "All the things I've said in songs/All the purple prose you bought from me/Reality's just black and white/The sentimental things I'd write/Never meant that much to me".
"The reason is that a lot of us are uneducated and we don't base our vote on issues, we base it on sentimental things.
