Example Sentences

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“In recent decades, we have consoled ourselves that we ‘punch above our weight’ in international affairs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2020

The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You have consoled me by playing my music," the emperor said when she had done.

From Time Magazine Archive

Heretofore, they have consoled themselves with the knowledge that at least their soccer players were still top hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

She did not regard the petulant shows of pretended indifference by which a more experienced young woman might have consoled herself.

From The Doctor's Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)