5 sentences with 'solace'
Example sentences and phrases with the word solace and other words derived from it.
• « Experiencing what would later be called a mid-life crisis, Dante turned to poetry for solace, eventually producing the greatest written work of the late Middle Ages: The Divine Comedy. »
• « Thus, too often working-class men turned to alcohol as a solace; it is no coincidence that the first-wave feminist movement was closely linked to the temperance movement that sought the legal prohibition of alcohol. »
• « We walked hand in hand and, when we reached the car, she came up to me to be kissed. I gladly obliged. But it was only a moment of solace: I was only a friend and never managed to occupy an important place in her heart. »
• « The pain in my bones was so intense, I would have shot myself if I had had a revolver handy. Drugs were my only solace. »
• « Storytelling, song and Christianity also provided solace and allowed slaves to develop their own interpretations of their condition. »