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
• The losers will play in a consolation game the same day.
  — Shannon Russell, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 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
• The consolation is knowing the truth will come out as the process plays out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Dickens’s aegis, for the consolation of the stricken and the shamed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
• In 1988, the all-stars lost their first game and didn’t get up for the consolation game that followed.
  — Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 Aug. 2019
• Rachel Hill added a consolation goal in the 82nd minute for the Pride, thundering a shot into the back of the net.
  — Luis Torres, Pro Soccer USA, 5 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Jordyn Listro found Mikayla Cluff in the box to head in what seemed to be a consolation goal to make the score 2-1.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022
• In an anxious age, what’s the best place to look for consolation?
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2020
• The Razorbacks will face the loser in the consolation game.
  — oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
• The city managed to turn them off, but that is small consolation.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2019
• The consolation: There was still a branch in Lynn serving up the hefty, juicy patties.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• The points came off the board, but that wasn't much consolation to Musselman.
  — Joe Walljasper, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
• The points came off the board, but that wasn’t much consolation to Musselman.
  — Joe Walljasper, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
• The buzz: The consolation final is the game no team wants to play in — yet both of these teams are familiar with it.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 5 July 2019
• Nix gamely stood in and tried to lead the Ducks to a consolation touchdown in the final minutes of the fourth quarter.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 4 Sep. 2022
• In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Jordyn Listro found Mikayla Cluff in the box to head in what seemed to be a consolation goal to make the score 2-1.
  — Austin David, Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2022
• None of this would offer much consolation to the whales, of course, but their demise is at least to the benefit of man and bear alike.
  — Travel, 29 Dec. 2021
• Yet some did not even have the consolation of burying their dead.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2023
• Only this time, the Wild didn't even snag a consolation point.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• That might be good for the country — but small consolation to the president and his son.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Oct. 2022
• But in a small bit of consolation, the human costs may be dropping.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
• Both wrestlers earned a win in the consolation bracket.
  — cleveland, 20 Feb. 2021
• The fact that Cole went down after the Yankees signed Fried is no small consolation.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 June 2025
• Toronto at least has a championship to show for Kawhi, which is the point of all of this, and is no small consolation.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 7 July 2019
• The winners will meet on Dec. 3 for the title, followed by the consolation game.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• Despite Fossil Ridge’s defeat in the opening game, the SaberCats still have the talent to make noise in the consolation side of the bracket.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 23 May 2025
• Just one consolation on an otherwise disappointing night for the Twins.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2025