1.   Is he a human who elicits sympathy?

2.   That is why she elicits so much sympathy.

3.   The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.

4.   Drug dealers elicited sympathy from secondary school pupils, who laughed at the suggestion of reporting them to the police.

5.   As a fugitive, Rudolph has elicited sympathy among a few residents of the area.

6.   Athletes are conditioned to fool the officials, to stumble backward and draw the foul, to elicit sympathy.

7.   Both Gere and Lyne say that the studio wanted a bad marriage with no sex to elicit greater sympathy for Connie, but both the men opposed that.

8.   Cox is so good that he almost elicits sympathy for this kind-hearted ogre.

9.   Davis tells his story not to elicit sympathy but to spread the word that cancer need not be a death sentence.