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Example sentences for: consolation

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

Here's my second criterion of rationality: If you're choosing between two lotteries with identical chances to win, then your preference should be unaffected if I throw in a consolation prize that you get if you lose in either case.
It's no consolation, but he has left behind an exquisite moment in film.
They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.
His doctor later tells Rothko's biographer that Rothko's "greatest sources of consolation were calories and alcohol."
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.