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How to use consolation in a sentence

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They might take consolation in the thought that the eventual destination of those so purged is paradise.
The train driver explained the situation over the tannoy, adding that it might be some consolation to us to know that the safety equipment works.
Perhaps the only consolation is that every other health system in the developed world will be facing the same sort of crisis at the same time.
He also won the consolation final of the 100 backstroke with a lifetime best time.
We may have run the world champions close in all three Tests but that is little consolation right at this moment.
The diving play-actors, on whom referees have been instructed to clamp down, will draw scant consolation from that as they take an early bath.
It might come as some small consolation to the Dubliner to learn that his self-inflicted wound is far from unique.
But, the Moving piece was quite funny, Nic thought so anyway, so you can have a mention as a consolation prize.
That's slim consolation, however, for the 50-odd banks the Friday Night Bank Robber knocked over before he was finally collared.
They are paintings about boredom and the consolation of invented pleasures.
As the nation bemoans the prospect of new tax rises, we may take consolation from the fact that we are not the first to suffer.
Life may go on, but that's not much consolation to someone living a life of suffering and tribulation.
This defeat very obviously hurt, with the backdoor of the qualifiers only a modest modicum of consolation.
There will also be the usual blather about healing wounds and moving on, but such false consolation will ring especially hollow this time around.
Her right hand is raised, signaling the mudra, the traditional Buddhist gesture of consolation.
Having had a poor run of three bogeys in four holes from the seventh, she had the consolation of a strong finish.
Over 6,000 in prize money is on offer and all unplaced greyhounds will receive a consolation prize.
His loveless, routine marriage is little consolation and, despairing of making a living in his chosen career, he takes a job as a filing clerk.
However, it may be some consolation that the western visitors are third from the bottom with only four points from four outings.
The unsuppressed liberty of spirit evident throughout the poems is a tonic and a consolation no matter what tyrannies life imposes.
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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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