solace

Sehida Abdurahmanovic, a member of the main association of mothers in Srebrenica, said knowing he died suffering was some solace to victims' families, but his conviction was more enduring.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

For the Valens family, watching young performers like Monroy continue to be inspired by Ritchie’s work is a solace after his tragic loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Apparently, my sister and I were far from alone in turning to the small wonders of nature for solace in a trying time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Did Slate politics by chance publish a really excellent feature today on Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, one so compelling and rich that I could find solace just by reading it?

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Even in Romania, he had been unable to find solace from the ghosts that haunted him.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020

A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Only her young son solaces her, and she counsels him that the race of life is not to the swift and the strong but to the survivor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Creamy lotions for the face, made mostly of almond oil and the oil of cocoanut, were their complexion solaces.

From The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture by Helen Follett Stevans

When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made."

From Time Magazine Archive

From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Intimations, Zadie Smith’s slender, solacing new personal essay collection about life during the COVID-19 crisis, is a May book.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020

In Rachlin’s skilled hands, Grimes’s story triggers indignation but also confers solace, Grimes being one of the solacing features.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017

In those early days of fog and joy and compromise, breastfeeding was an epiphany.There was a solacing sense of dignity to my being able to provide him with such basic nourishment, comfort, warmth, love.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

Ifemelu woke up one night to go to the bathroom, and heard Blaine in the living room, talking on the phone, his tone gentle and solacing.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie