consolation prize

Example Sentences

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This is what a consolation prize feels like.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

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

If a contestant reached the $8,000 plateau and failed to answer that question correctly, he or she was given a new Cadillac as a consolation prize, worth about $5,000 at that time.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady