How to Use consolation in a Sentence

consolation

noun

• His kind words were a consolation to me.
• The pitch was out of the zone, as if that was any consolation.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2023
• There is a small consolation if one of these insects nips you.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2022
• The consolation is knowing the truth will come out as the process plays out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Yet some did not even have the consolation of burying their dead.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• But if these numbers hold, those points may be cold consolation in the fall.
  — NBC News, 17 June 2018
• The city managed to turn them off, but that is small consolation.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• In an anxious age, what’s the best place to look for consolation?
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2020
• The consolation of an evening mint tea and hookah was precious to those stalked by fear all day.
  — Daniel Brook, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Maybe that’s a kind of self-consolation, but thinking that way brings me peace.
  — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
• The consolation is that neither nailed down the role.
  — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
• The heartiness of my veins is no consolation to me as the needle goes in.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018
• Hu bounced back from a third-round loss to win a pair of consolation matches and earn key points for the team.
  — Steve Millar, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• But in a small bit of consolation, the human costs may be dropping.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
• To some of those teams, that’s of little consolation.
  — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
• Pearce lost its first game but rattled off three in a row to win the consolation bracket.
  — Ishmael Johnson, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
• Maybe that’s the only consolation of this job.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
• That was always sort of the consolation — we’re not getting paid as much.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• The loss stung, but a two-loss season had to have been some consolation for the mid-major.
  — Zach Powell, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• Only this time, the Wild didn't even snag a consolation point.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• There was one consolation, though.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
• Dickens’s aegis, for the consolation of the stricken and the shamed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
• Wasn’t there consolation in that?
  — Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
• Then this year, the base got cut to 36 cents, with a 4-cent top-up thrown in as a consolation.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
• That might be good for the country — but small consolation to the president and his son.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Oct. 2022
• Of course, that's little consolation to the people whose jobs end up on the chopping block.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 1 Sep. 2022
• This is the problem of memoir; this is the consolation of memoir.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• The points came off the board, but that wasn’t much consolation to Musselman.
  — Joe Walljasper, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
• The points came off the board, but that wasn't much consolation to Musselman.
  — Joe Walljasper, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
• The Tigers star bowed out with a loss in the round of 32 and one in the consolation bracket.
  — Jack Marrion, Houston Chronicle, 29 July 2019