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Example sentences for: consolation

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Whatever consolation it might afford Americans, the British are with them in their ignorance of the difference between fewer and less:
If it's any consolation, a "dissembling, conflicted blowhard" is also known as an "artist" where I come from.
The consolation for all this lay at the bottom of the box: hope, the precious quality that would help mankind through it all.
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.
If it's any consolation to Emmons, Hammerstein's very last lyric, "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music , is invariably assumed to be a real Austrian folk song--indeed, a few years back, the White House went further, playing it at a state banquet for the Austrian president, under the impression that it was the country's national anthem.