consolation prize

Example Sentences

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The consolation prize was a larger role for Presley.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

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

The addition of Longstreet, who rose rapidly up recruiting boards, is no consolation prize.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

As if this was the consolation prize for the gossip she was in for.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd