How to Use solace in a Sentence
solace
noun
- Her presence was a great solace for me.
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It's important to explain what's going on, but some parents tell their child too much—about being lonely and frightened, about dates they're going on. Instead of the parent offering emotional solace to the child, the child is expected to provide it for the adult.
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People,
4 Mar. 2002
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But the same path out for him is one in which the rest of the team can take solace.
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Jon Meoli,
baltimoresun.com,
10 Apr. 2021
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In Sea and Sand, he's been kicked out of his house and finds solace on the beach.
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Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
29 June 2020
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The Spurs could take some cold solace in their late push.
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Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
10 Mar. 2018
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Even so, it’s of little solace to those caught in the chaos.
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Lori Aratani and Ian Duncan,
Anchorage Daily News,
8 Jan. 2022
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Their house was a place of solace and a place of calmness.
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Mike Anthony,
courant.com,
25 Oct. 2020
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At the time, youth in the Bronx found solace in music and dancing.
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Deena Zaru,
ABC News,
17 Oct. 2021
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Bam Adebayo took no solace in the fact the odds were stacked against him.
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Andre C. Fernandez,
miamiherald,
26 Oct. 2017
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This is the rare novel that brings equal amounts of solace and joy.
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Mark Athitakis,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Dec. 2023
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Still, a four-year wait brings solace to the broken heart.
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Bruce Jenkins,
SFChronicle.com,
19 June 2018
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Would that bring you some solace, if Greg doesn’t get away with it?
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Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Dec. 2022
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In times of grief and loss, art speaks the compelling language of solace.
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Elisa Turner,
Sun Sentinel,
13 July 2022
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These days, Jones finds solace singing in his church choir.
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CBS News,
5 Feb. 2022
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His life away from the court doesn’t offer much solace.
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Brett Dawson,
The Courier-Journal,
19 Feb. 2022
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There, the Standard Oil heiress found more than just solace.
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Leena Kim,
Town & Country,
26 Feb. 2023
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Home for us has been a return to the values that shaped us, as well as a place of solace.
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Cassie Condrey,
Southern Living,
24 June 2021
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But Warriors fans might take solace in the fact that some non-Dubs fans agree.
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Daniel Mano,
The Mercury News,
8 June 2017
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Here, the artist, who would die by suicide the next year, sought solace in painting.
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Amy Crawford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2022
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My only solace is that Rebel doesn't seem to think things are over.
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Noelle Devoe,
Seventeen,
4 Apr. 2017
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The series has been a source of solace for some Ukrainian fans during the many months of war.
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Maria Varenikova,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2023
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Inter has been spared that fate, of course, but that is scant solace for its fans.
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New York Times,
20 Aug. 2021
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As a young adult, Merkel sought solace from the oppressive regime.
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Aaron Allen,
The Christian Science Monitor,
1 Dec. 2021
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That’s one of the ways in which compassion for others can be a source of solace for us, too.
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Martin Kuz,
The Christian Science Monitor,
6 Dec. 2022
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But solace can be found in just about any quote ever said about change.
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Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com,
al,
30 Aug. 2023
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There were three timely drives in which the defense can find solace.
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Dan Labbe,
cleveland,
14 Sep. 2021
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Schulz doesn’t shy away from the fact that some of the afflicted may never find solace.
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Edna Bonhomme,
The Atlantic,
1 Nov. 2022
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Existing as the shy kid who takes solace in the outdoors.
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Julia Ioffe,
GQ,
21 June 2018
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Even as the country became Buddhist in the 16th century, the herdsmen found solace in its reassuring rituals and its promise of contact with the spirit world.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Mar. 2024
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In Ravn’s speculative-fiction novel, shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the isolated human and android employees of a spaceship find solace in the strange scents around them.
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Celine Nguyen,
The Atlantic,
20 Mar. 2024
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