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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:
Honorary (a k a "lifetime achievement" or "deathbed") Oscars are typically consolation prizes, given to people whose work was overlooked in its time--such as Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Federico Fellini, and Stanley Donen, none of whom ever won a real Oscar.
So Snip's A is an 11-percent shot at Snurr's A with a $1-million consolation prize.
In 1995 it established a private "consolation fund" for restitution, but most surviving comfort women have refused the money, demanding a public apology and public compensation.
If it's any consolation to you, this occurrence is not all that rare.
If he doesn't get that Nobel pretty soon, he should drop by, and I'll give him a consolation prize.
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