consolation prize

Example Sentences

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That’s the consolation prize for losing the entire U.S. government as a customer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

If the FA Cup really is struggling to count as a consolation prize for Guardiola and City this season, you could have fooled everyone inside Vitality Stadium who watched him.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

Leftovers became less a consolation prize and more a creative challenge.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024

For Wasserman Schultz, a onetime chair of the DNC herself, this party becoming her biggest stage of the night seemed not much of a consolation prize.

From Slate • Aug. 21, 2024

Eisenhower made it official on February 7, when he offered Stassen a consolation prize of a position elsewhere in the administration.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik