CONSOLE in a Sentence

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For CONSOLE, below is one of 170 sentences:
She fainted when she saw me return, and made a little jug of egg-hot afterwards to console us while we talked it over.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSOLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
console
 v.  cheer from distress or depression; alleviate grief and raise spirits of; relieve; comfort
Classic Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
1  I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  Come, dearest Victor; you alone can console Elizabeth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  She fainted when she saw me return, and made a little jug of egg-hot afterwards to console us while we talked it over.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
5  Also to tell you, that you had best seek that home of yours, with all speed, and hide your head among those excellent people who are expecting you, and whom your money will console.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
6  I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 53. ANOTHER RETROSPECT
7  He had said it without thinking, simply to console her.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 2
8  No one minded it but herself, and it was doing its best to grow, but Amy felt deeply the want of a Grecian nose, and drew whole sheets of handsome ones to console herself.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FOUR
9  Leaving the others to console Beth, she departed to the kitchen, which was in a most discouraging state of confusion.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
10  It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buying something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
11  At one corner of the wide, low wall was a seat, and here Amy often came to read or work, or console herself with the beauty all about her.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
12  Nothing could console and nothing could appease her.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
13  Mary, however, continued to console herself with such kind of moral extractions from the evil before them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 47
14  But the young men whom she met were ordinary and she gave them no encouragement, trying to console her romantic desires by eating a great deal of Turkish Delight in secret.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
15  He would cast about in his mind for some words that might console her, and would find only lame and useless ones.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  There are many lights and electrical instruments on the computer console.
3  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.
4  His friends gathered to console him upon his sudden bereavement.
5  This type of games console is starting to look well past its sell-by date.
6  The only consolation for the team is that they get a chance to play the game again.
7  Her appointment was seen as a consolation prize after she lost the election.
8  He found himself at a loss for words of consolation.
9  This news was of little consolation to us.
10  She had the consolation of coming second in her last race of the day.
11  When her mother died, she found consolation in her religious beliefs.
12  He went to seek consolation in the local pub.
13  Your kindness was a consolation to me in my grief.