How to Use cold comfort in a Sentence

cold comfort

noun

• The good news about the economy is cold comfort to people who have lost their jobs.
• That their comrades built effective anti-tank traps is surely cold comfort to the Russian troops who ultimately got caught in the trap.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• But for the Googlers who have been asked to work on the project, that has come as cold comfort.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2018
• But that will be cold comfort to the players who can’t stay afloat.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
• All of this is cold comfort for fans of the Nittany Lions and the Wolverines, of course.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2020
• But that will be cold comfort for those who want to put the Trump era more firmly in the rearview mirror.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 June 2021
• Although they were sought by Winkler and Bryan, the changes are cold comfort for the loss of a beloved daughter.
  — Joseph A. Slobodzian, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• The researchers found this safeguard to be cold comfort.
  — Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
• But the lopsided House vote will be a cold comfort to the Kurds who were so foolish as to trust us.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• In the face of all this, the warm weather is a cold comfort, but a comfort nonetheless.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2020
• That’s cold comfort for the users who were left in the lurch when their accounts were suddenly closed.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 July 2021
• Those signs might be cold comfort to people forced to live with the appliances.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• That’s cold comfort to a mother and son who used to have a home of their own, Woodward told reporters last week.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• But that will be cold comfort to Mr. Trump, who now finds himself on the wrong side of the bright line these companies have drawn.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
• Those words were cold comfort to activists who had worked against the efforts to curb voter rights.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• That may be cold comfort for older acts that are stuck with lower rates.
  — New York Times, 7 May 2021
• For the men and women who had testified against him, the verdict was cold comfort.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• That's cold comfort to Nkeki, who hasn't been able to let go of her memories.
  — Ali Abare Abubakar and John Dyer, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
• That is likely cold comfort to the fifth-year guard, who has opened the season more frigid than any player on the Spurs’ roster.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021
• That comes as cold comfort in a country where some 2,500 people died every day over the past week, more than triple the number in the US.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• There’s cold comfort in knowing an entire wave of restaurants will have to close.
  — Edward Lee, Bon Appétit, 4 Dec. 2020
• Yet that’s cold comfort for a team seeking its first victory in a true road game since Nov. 19.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• That’s cold comfort for some in the King school community.
  — oregonlive, 14 Jan. 2022
• Energy and food prices made up much of the May increase, but this is cold comfort for consumers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2022
• Analysts reckon the start of 2023 was worse, but that’s cold comfort to those getting hit now.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• That’s cold comfort for fans desperate for more episodes.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 19 May 2022
• But Stern is quick to point out this may be cold comfort since the wavelength of light discharged by LED lamps is, in many cases, unclear.
  — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 29 Apr. 2023
• That’s cold comfort for Gazans living through the bombardment.
  — NBC News, 14 May 2021
• That’s cold comfort for fans of the Choco Taco, which featured vanilla ice cream in a sweet, taco-shaped shell that was dipped in milk chocolate and showered with peanuts.
  — Emily Heil, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2022
• Perhaps that’s cold comfort to the CEOs who are getting nervous about their own utility, and whether they themselves might one day be replaced.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024