Example Sentences

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But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2020

A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

There were many solaces for the Democracies in those ominous hours.

From Time Magazine Archive

We shall derive more of our solaces from the creation and in the consciousness of our right relations to it.

From The Holy Earth by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)