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How to use consolation in a sentence

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And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
That's not to say I'm dining solo, with a morsel of nut roast and clootie dumpling for consolation.
Anyone who is tormented by that oaf next door deserves a consolation dinner.
He was sincere but he was not adept at consolation so it came out stiff, wooden.
The only consolation for the players as they go stir-crazy is that it's almost as bad back home.
At the hour of death the Holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your greatest consolation.
That was small consolation for an ordnance department that had to supply ammunition to the frontlines in more than a dozen different calibers.
A late strike from leading scorer Steve Oleksewycz was the visitors' only consolation.
Hollywood hated the movie, but it still got a consolation mention for its punchy sound effects editing.
Even if mistreated, she could not come back to her parents for consolation or support.
He won't be the centre of attention any more, and he may not like that, but there will be that consolation of playing in the Champions League.
Though the Syrian and Iraqi Baath parties were bitter foes, there was consolation in that both were members of a confederacy of despotisms.
I suppose there's some small consolation in the fact that his death was quick and probably painless.
There is an unsettling realisation that the story, all stories, while tempting us with consolation and hope, in fact add to the world's misery.
As a result of the tragic event of losing a child, these mothers turn to religion for consolation and comfort.
She always had a word of consolation and comfort to all who had the pleasure of knowing her.
Denholme pulled a goal back late in the game but it was little consolation.
But this was of little consolation or comfort to the latter who for the second year running had lost out at the final hurdle.
If the Commonwealth Games is a consolation prize after the disappointment of two failed Olympic bids, it is proving a valuable one.
He was accepting words of consolation and comfort from his visitors with such a sad and distressed look on his face.
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I tried to thank him, but my case was not of a kind to be alleviated by this sort of consolation.
He turned abruptly and walked off, leaving Drake to apostrophize his eccentricity and seek consolation with Marie.
The ataxic patient needs consolation, and this can be given without in any way deceiving him.
With this consolation, he betook him to his bedroom, and proceeded to undress.
A word of consolation, a caress, even from her mother, would have distressed her.
He held Philothea's hand continually, and often spoke to her in words of consolation.
My only consolation is that the war must soon be over, and that I will have helped.
But for her consolation were the matters of food and dress, and of countless junketings.
It is a consolation to remember that, sooner or later, their time must come.
If it could be any consolation to them, these Saxons were not William's only captives.
It was a sort of false socialism, this pretence of moral equality, a kind of consolation prize that was thus emphasised.
Some little ray of consolation I culled, perhaps, from my thoughts of Roxalanne.
The fadeless beauty of our Common Prayer brought hope and consolation to all of us who were gathered together.
And so to his flageolet again, finding a consolation in the sweetness of his own performance.
She who had been as a haunting discomfort to me, had grown to be my one consolation.
The kindliness which Claire showed to Florent was but a slight consolation to him.
It was a consolation to see how handsome and superlatively smart he looked!
Neither Frieda, who came in after suppertime, nor I, was able to give her much consolation.
The wife of Manoah adverted to a third source of consolation, at the period of this miraculous disappearance.
Tu and Wei, on their knees before her, tried to pour in words of consolation.
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