Example sentences for: consolation

How can you use “consolation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Whatever consolation it might afford Americans, the British are with them in their ignorance of the difference between fewer and less:

  • In the 1990s, non-incidental master's in the sciences—in other words, intentionally terminal degrees, not consolation prizes for failing out of graduate school—crept into engineering and applied mathematics, too, as companies grew more reliant on computational analysis and hired accordingly.

  • His doctor later tells Rothko's biographer that Rothko's "greatest sources of consolation were calories and alcohol."

  • But there may be some consolation for Marilyn Manson himself.

  • They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.


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