CONSOLATION in a Sentence

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170 example sentences for CONSOLATION, such as:

1. This news was of little consolation to us.
2. He went to seek consolation in the local pub.
3. Your kindness was a consolation to me in my grief.
4. He found himself at a loss for words of consolation.
5. This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSOLATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
consolation
 n.  act of consoling; state of being consoled; refreshment of spirit; comfort
Classic Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
2  This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
5  She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
6  But I, the true murderer, felt the never-dying worm alive in my bosom, which allowed of no hope or consolation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  But I journey towards England, and I may there find consolation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
11  But in sorrow she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
12  Colonel Brandon, unfortunately for himself, had no such encouragement to think only of Marianne, and in conversing with Elinor he found the greatest consolation for the indifference of her sister.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
13  She got up with a headache, was unable to talk, and unwilling to take any nourishment; giving pain every moment to her mother and sisters, and forbidding all attempt at consolation from either.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
14  Sometimes she could believe Willoughby to be as unfortunate and as innocent as herself, and at others, lost every consolation in the impossibility of acquitting him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
15  Mrs. Dashwood feared to hazard any remark, and ventured not to offer consolation.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 47
Example Sentence:
1  The only consolation for the team is that they get a chance to play the game again.
2  Her appointment was seen as a consolation prize after she lost the election.
3  He found himself at a loss for words of consolation.
4  This news was of little consolation to us.
5  She had the consolation of coming second in her last race of the day.
6  When her mother died, she found consolation in her religious beliefs.
7  He went to seek consolation in the local pub.
8  Your kindness was a consolation to me in my grief.
9  With him I was at perfect ease, because I knew I suited him; all I said or did seemed either to console or revive him.
10  There are many lights and electrical instruments on the computer console.
11  This filter is able to detect invalid clicks in real-time, with the goal of removing them before they ever show up in the AdWords console.
12  His friends gathered to console him upon his sudden bereavement.
13  This type of games console is starting to look well past its sell-by date.