Definition of Sentimental

having excessive emotions about certain things or people

Examples of Sentimental in a sentence

Jan becomes sentimental whenever she thinks about her deceased parents.  🔊

Although I usually enjoy the writer’s books, he did not impress me with his sentimental biography about his childhood in Maine.  🔊

My husband is not sentimental and does not carry a picture of our children or me in his wallet.  🔊

As my daughter walked down the aisle to get married, I became sentimental and started to cry.  🔊

Since my father gave me the glove and the baseball, they both have sentimental value to me.  🔊

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