noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
found solace in
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He eventually found solace in religion.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
find
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Clearly she had found solace in its silence and calm, silvery light.
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Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
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The individualist can find no solace in reflecting upon any contribution which will survive him.
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After the two Penns parted company, the son found solace in a happy marriage to GuliGulielma Maria Springett.
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Aunt Alicia found solace in the little Sara, as bubbly and zestful as her nephew had been.
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Shut out in all the top races, Democrats were left to find solace anyplace they could.
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Monarchists could find some solace in the fact that the participants were not exactly representative.
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Marian found no solace in her marriage.
seek
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He went off bewildered and hurt and she knew it was quite likely he would seek solace elsewhere.
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She was an intelligent girl who was seeking some solace in her hard situation.
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The anxious and the worried may seek solace outside the surgery.
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She was devastated by the breakup of her marriage and had no interest in seeking the solace of a new relationship.
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We tend to draw together to seek mutual solace for our disease.
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George took to the hills and went to seek solace with his younger brother.
take
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Yet perhaps Thomas Hopkins and his wife took some solace in so commemorating the death of their eldest son.
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But Eddie, being Eddie, takes little solace in this.
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For some reason, Sylvie took solace in him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the end of this day, what he wanted more than anything else was the solace of her letters.
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Desire finds its satisfaction outside of marriage, and the solace of belief breaks up against the pain of experience.
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His skull was filled with agony; but he lurched towards her, his tortured brain seeking her unwilling body's solace .
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I can not describe the solace it gave me.
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Like others beset by misfortune, polio patients found solace in comparing themselves to others.
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Such solace can be drawn from little things like that breeze-song.
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There was a plug-in kettle, an electric ring for cooking on, and a Gideon's bible, for solace .