silver lining

noun

|Updated on: 6 Jun 2018

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Definition of silver lining

: a consoling or hopeful prospect

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Examples of silver lining in a Sentence

If there's a silver lining to losing my job, it's that I'll now be able to go to school full-time and finish my degree earlier.

Recent Examples of silver lining from the Web

The only silver lining is that the decision is likely to add fuel to the movement to rid companies or forced arbitration agreements in general.

— refinery29.com, "How The Supreme Court's Arbitration Decision Will Affect You," 22 May 2018
So for Democrats and for others horrified by the 2016 results, there was a silver lining to the dark, dark clouds surrounding the country’s future when Trump was elected.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "What the Midterms Would Look Like If Clinton Had Won," 1 May 2018
The only silver lining is that the cast of Harry Potter are still really good friends.

— noelle devoe, Seventeen, "Emma Watson, Tom Felton, and Matthew Lewis Had the Most Magical "Harry Potter" Reunion IRL!," 17 Apr. 2018
As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

— randall hyman, Science | AAAS, "Polar sea ice leads to more productive oceans," 6 Apr. 2018
The only silver lining is that this outbreak is not of the drug-resistant variety.

— max bearak, Washington Post, "Caught in Congo’s tides of war," 6 Apr. 2018
There are silver linings to having players too banged up to participate in spring practice.

— stefan stevenson, star-telegram, "Next man up: 2017 recruiting class could become TCU cornerstones this fall | Fort Worth Star-Telegram," 23 Mar. 2018
Freeman said that there was a silver lining to that particular cloud.

— doug maccash, NOLA.com, "Dig the cool new Smoothie King Center dressing room decor," 21 Feb. 2018
But there are some silver linings in the rise in energy costs.

— joel naroff, Philly.com, "Energy price surge will slow down economic expansion | Joel Naroff," 18 May 2018

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