sentimental reason

collocation in English

meaningsofsentimentalandreason

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sentimental
adjective
uk
/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl/us
/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl/
A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based ...
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reason
noun
uk
/ˈriː.zən/us
/ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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(Definition ofsentimentalandreasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is asentimentalreason.
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It is purely asentimentalreason.
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That is asentimentalreason, but not one of principle.
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These clubs were begun from a rathersentimentalreason, but that does not matter.
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Besides thesentimentalreason, there is another reason why co-operators want this.
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There is not only thesentimentalreason, the memory of 1851.
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That was of course asentimentalreason, and it was—and is—a very strong one.
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It may be asentimentalreason, but it also does much damage to bird life.
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I firmly believe that that offer was turned down for no good reason except asentimentalreason—or perhaps it would not be quite fair to call it asentimentalreason.
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I say quite apart from thesentimentalreason, which is a very good reason—but, apart from that.
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This happened for an almostsentimentalreasonbecause his name had been carved on the wooden stock.
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