Sample Sentences for
console
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(editor-reviewed)

console as in:  console her grief

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She consoled him after his mother died.
consoled = comforted
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    "You'll be alright," she said in a consoling voice.
    consoling = comforting
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    Whenever anyone tried to console me about my mother, I had nearly chomped their heads off.  (source)
    console = comfort (emotionally)
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    I want to console Al.  (source)
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    Eve consoled herself,  (source)
    consoled = comforted (emotionally)
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    "Tommy," Newt said in a consoling voice.  (source)
    consoling = comforting (emotionally)
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    He was dressed in black mourning robes, and his face bore the same inconsolable expression I'd seen when we spoke on the phone.  (source)
    inconsolable = too sad to be comforted
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconsolable means not and reverses the meaning of consolable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    In my particular case the consolatory topics were close at hand, and, indeed, had suggested themselves to my meditations a considerable time before it was requisite to use them.†  (source)
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    Her leg still hurt; she rubbed it often and patted it, as if to console it.  (source)
    console = comfort (emotionally)
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    She merely told herself consolingly, "Of course, while I'm in the wood, if I decide never to come back, well then, that will be that."  (source)
    consolingly = in a manner that is emotionally comforting
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    Seeing Tita, she went and embraced her, crying inconsolably.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconsolably means not and reverses the meaning of consolably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    But the schoolmaster had been since blest with the consolation of sweet Sue, while for him there was no consoler.†  (source)
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    I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death.  (source)
    consoles = comforts (emotionally)
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    Besides these there were the consolers, who assured him that the present state of things couldn't possibly last and, when asked for definite suggestions, fobbed him off by telling him he was making too much fuss about a passing inconvenience.†  (source)
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console as in:  plug it into the console

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    The sound engineer worked her console.
    console = controls (for electronic equipment)
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    Then I grabbed my OASIS console, a flat black rectangle about the size of a paperback book.  (source)
    console = a small, specialized computer system with ports to connect video, etc.
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    Arnold pushed his chair back from the central console at the control panel.  (source)
    console = controls for electrical equipment
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    Heatedly he banged a mayonnaise-smeared fist on the side of the television console, to no avail.  (source)
    console = a cabinet that holds electronic equipment
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    So I could only talk to it using wall consoles.†  (source)
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    Vogel looked up from a computer console.  (source)
    console = video monitor
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    He shook them away as best he could, squinted at the control consoles, and pushed several likely-looking surfaces.†  (source)
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    Chief Franklin's console received data from a string of sensors planted off the coast of Iceland.  (source)
    console = computer monitor
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    Pedrito just cracks his knuckles and consoles her by saying that they can have another one real soon.†  (source)
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    Like Roarke, she used the handplate for access, then moved behind the U-shaped console.  (source)
    console = controls (for electrical equipment)
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    The insanely expensive golf clubs were here, the watches and game consoles, the designer clothes, they were all sitting here, in wait, on my sister's property.†  (source)
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    Arthur followed him in nervously and was astonished to see a man lolling back in a chair with his feet on a control console picking the teeth in his right-hand head with his left hand.  (source)
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    There were several chairs that looked comfortable but not expensive, a coffee table that had once been expensive but now had a long chip gone from the side, two bookcases (stuffed full of Reader's Digest Condensed Books and Detective Book Club trilogies from the forties, Wendy saw with some amusement), and an anonymous hotel TV that looked much less elegant than the buffed wood consoles in the rooms.†  (source)
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