consolation prize

For some parents no consolation prize is great enough to trade precious time with their families.

But he might have to settle for the best-foreign-film Oscar as a consolation prize.

Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

When Gerald Ford picked Nelson Rockefeller as vice president from 1974 to 1977, it was a consolation prize to a burned-out boom.

They left in a huff, taking all the computers and office equipment as a consolation prize.

Eternal punishment wasn't provided as a consolation prize for anybody, so far as I know.

As you see, he is no beauty, and he'll never wear the stick pin unless it's given for a consolation prize.

He did need some consolation prize, and anyway he persuaded me to let him have an aeroplane.

However, as a consolation prize, and as I was leaving, the headmaster gave me a second prize.

"A consolation prize; open it after you start," he whispered.