The mother was holding her daughter in her arms, and trying to console her after her kitten was hit by a car.
I lost the game, but I consoled myself with the knowledge that I had improved a lot nonetheless.
Yona's friends did their best to console her after she saw her boyfriend
kissing another girl at the party.
It is little consolation to know that the kid who beat up my son has been caught; nothing will really happen to him, and he won't even have to apologize.
The old woman was completely inconsolable after the death of her husband.
She lost the
tournament in the final round, but she won a new tennis racquet as a consolation prize.
The musicians were sitting around the console, making the final changes to the mixing of their newest song.
After our puppy died, my daughter was inconsolable for days.
The President
personally went to the hospital to console the survivors of the terrorist attack.
The boys sat in front of the video console for hours, playing game after game.
Sir Francis Bacon once wrote that imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Berthe Morisot once observed that the love of nature is consolation against failure.
Earl Warren once said that when he turned 40, a friend consoled him, saying he shouldn't complain about growing old because many people do not have that privilege.
The Greek philosopher Democritus once wrote, "If you suffer injustice, console yourself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
Studies suggest that Chinese babies cry less, and are more easily consoled than American babies.
I know you didn't get the job, but if it is any consolation, you were the second choice out of over 20 applicants.
A Swiss proverb notes that great consolation may grow out of the smallest saying.
Find someone who has consoled a friend who was feeling sad.