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How to use solace in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Solace means comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress. Example: “You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.”

Examples of solace by meaning

nounComfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

  • You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.

More sentences with solace

  • Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.From the entry dusk
  • If you choose a life of awe, you will surrender the solace of certitude.2007 October 17, Paul Pearsall, “Awe”, in Health Communications. From the entry openture
  • I still went to those playlists for solace.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry playlist
  • Instead, many of our youth of today's generation look for solace in the subrealism of an eternally recurring hedonism.2019, Ronald Jeremiah Schindler, The Frankfurt School Critique of Capitalist Culture. From the entry subrealism
  • The place itself provided solace and recompense.2006 July 30, “The Great Right Place: James Ellroy Comes Home”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 13 Mar 2012, page I14. From the entry spiritus mundi
  • Well, he was done, he solaced himself.1909, Jack London, chapter 41, in Martin Eden. From the entry hitch one's wagon to a star
  • A new ritual called an honor walk is bringing solace to families who’ve lost a loved one and consented to have their organs donated.2020 February 12, Al Letson, Dexter Chris, “The honor walk”, in The Reveal. From the entry honor walk
  • But I take solace in the fact that the public has seen the enormous mountain of evidence proving what Fox did, and Fox paid dearly for it.2023 April 21, John Poulos, “Dominion’s C.E.O.: Why We Settled the Lawsuit Against Fox News”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry dearly
  • It could not be denied them in a Christian country—and it provided them with solace in their "vale of tears," guiding them through "the valley of the shadow."1992, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Invention of Africa”, in In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry vale of tears
  • I found the larger Pennsylvania countryside delightful in a rolling, civilized, lovely, quietful way no other range of country has ever been to me, a solace, a pleasure, a calm.a. 1963, Arthur Crew Inman, The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession. From the entry quietful

Meaning of solace

  1. noun Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
  2. noun A source of comfort or consolation.
  3. verb To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

Full definition of solace

Questions about solace in a sentence

How do you use solace in a sentence?
Solace is used as a noun and verb. For example: “You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.”
What is a short sentence with solace?
“The place itself provided solace and recompense.”
What does solace mean?
Solace means comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: solace (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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