silver lining

noun

|Updated on: 15 Aug 2018

Examples: silver lining in a Sentence

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

But there’s a silver lining for Trump: When the responses are broken down along party lines, the current president fares a bit better.

— jen kirby, Vox, "Americans were asked to name the best president of their lifetime, and Obama won," 11 July 2018
Still, as our colleague Amy Goldstein points out, the data has a silver lining for ACA advocates.

— colby itkowitz, Washington Post, "The Health 202: Those who don't qualify for government aid aren't buying Obamacare plans," 3 July 2018
The mystery buyer's immense gesture of good faith is a silver lining in what, to many, has been a sad narrative on the shuttering of an iconic American business.

— christina capatides, CBS News, "Anonymous person buys $1M worth of remaining toys at Toys "R" Us to donate," 29 June 2018
There’s a silver lining in the form of a squad of rising stars like Christian Pulisic and John Brooks, who are young enough to be dreaming of a resurgence in 2022.

— siobhan morrin, Time, "Your Ultimate Guide to Watching the 2018 World Cup," 13 June 2018
It’s hard to find a silver lining in Washington’s bipartisan spending cloud.

— james freeman, WSJ, "Trump, the Six Billion Dollar Man*," 22 May 2018
There’s a silver lining here: Orlando City’s second half was much better.

— jordan culver, Pro Soccer USA, "Orlando City’s loss to Atlanta United proves there are things to work on," 14 May 2018
Meanwhile, McLemore's suicide has had a silver lining for Woodstock.

— mike cason, AL.com, "Alabama Senate again delays action on economic developers bill," 28 Mar. 2018
There is even a Little Caesars location in Charlottesville, Va., so that's a silver lining for Cavaliers fans, right?

— pete grathoff, kansascity, "UMBC's upset of Virginia means everyone in the country gets free pizza | The Kansas City Star," 17 Mar. 2018

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