consolation
IPA: kɑnsʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.
- The prize or benefit for the loser.
- (sports) A consolation goal.
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Examples of "consolation" in Sentences
- The poem was offered as consolation.
- The others played in the consolation pool.
- The consolation and encouragement were not necessary.
- In the spiritual order consolation is of three kinds.
- The consolation is that Blair was tormented by the encounters.
- The consolation is that it finally gives her the attention she has been craving and feels she deserves.
- The main consolation is that no one at the wedding is even going to look atg me, so there is no point even caring.
- Their main consolation is that they expect injured stars Gilbert Arenas and Caron Butler to return before the postseason.
- Sanford sent Palin what he called a consolation prize-sized portion of shrimp, grits and She-Crab soup from a Charleston restaurant.
- What kind of consolation is that for the 50 million Americans who have lost their homes or are struggling to pay off mortgages that are "underwater"?
- That may sound like thin consolation for a party whose recent trend line looks a lot like the Dow: Not quite as reviled as we were in the aftermath of Watergate?
- "That is just it," returned du Portail; "the poor wretch was in love with that casket; so that when, shortly after, I entered his room and told him I knew all, he proposed to me to leave him the life use of what he called the consolation of his old age, pledging himself to make Mademoiselle de la Peyrade his sole heir, revealing to me at the same time the existence of a hoard of gold (to which he was adding every day), and also the possession of a house and an investment in the Funds."