How to Use consolation in a Sentence

consolation

noun

• His kind words were a consolation to me.
• The consolation is knowing the truth will come out as the process plays out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Hu bounced back from a third-round loss to win a pair of consolation matches and earn key points for the team.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• There was fear of death, but also consolation, even exuberant assurance of life in a far better world to come.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• But there have been no psychologists available to offer any consolation to the patients.
  — Vanessa Gera, ajc, 24 Sep. 2021
• For a world yearning for the return of something universal and uplifting at a time of upheaval, that is a welcome consolation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• One small consolation was the way her mother modeled a certain perverse self-reliance, rejecting the judgments of others.
  — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• There’s no mention of blouses or wandering hands, only a little story of consolation and forgiveness — for him.
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2021
• In what was the first-ever meeting between the schools, Bethel-Tate's late tallies only offered consolation.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2021
• Daily double and Pick 3 wagers received a consolation payment.
  — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2021
• As consolation, the local tourism association has promised them free entry to three popular tourist attractions, redeemable within the next three years.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• The final two rounds of play, comprised of semifinal winners and losers in each class, determines seeding for the state championship with a regional title match and consolation match.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 16 Oct. 2021
• Daily double and Pick 3 wagers on Modern Games received a consolation payment.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• The pitch was out of the zone, as if that was any consolation.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2023
• Jordyn Listro found Mikayla Cluff in the box to head in what seemed to be a consolation goal to make the score 2-1.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022
• The Razorbacks will face the loser in the consolation game.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
• The consolation: There was still a branch in Lynn serving up the hefty, juicy patties.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• Nix gamely stood in and tried to lead the Ducks to a consolation touchdown in the final minutes of the fourth quarter.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022
• In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Jordyn Listro found Mikayla Cluff in the box to head in what seemed to be a consolation goal to make the score 2-1.
  — Austin David, Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2022
• None of this would offer much consolation to the whales, of course, but their demise is at least to the benefit of man and bear alike.
  — Travel, 29 Dec. 2021
• Yet some did not even have the consolation of burying their dead.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• That might be good for the country — but small consolation to the president and his son.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Oct. 2022
• This is the problem of memoir; this is the consolation of memoir.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Cheo James scored 24 points to lead the Braves (1-2) to their first victory of the season in a consolation bracket game.
  — Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
• Of course, that's little consolation to the people whose jobs end up on the chopping block.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• For every one of us in fact or in fiction, this will happen at some point, which is both the challenge and the consolation of the form.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• That was always sort of the consolation — we’re not getting paid as much.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• Oakland added a consolation strike in the 83rd minute after a scrum in front of the net, but by then the celebration was on.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2023
• All in all, that’s made for pretty rough going for Hovde, though there is some consolation should his Senate bid fall short.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• The language for pain, instead, is that of poetry, which charges the words of a sentence with the force of beauty, turning chaos into consolation.
  — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024