How to Use cold comfort in a Sentence

cold comfort

noun
  • The good news about the economy is cold comfort to people who have lost their jobs.
  • The goals in Utah were cold comfort for him.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Being right can be a cold comfort.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That’s cold comfort for those dying on the streets.
    — Sal Rodriguez, Daily News, 28 May 2026
  • But that will be cold comfort to the players who can’t stay afloat.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • For workers, that is cold comfort.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The ones that provide cold comfort.
    — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But the low level of layoffs is cold comfort to job hunters.
    — Michael Sasso, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • That may be cold comfort for older acts that are stuck with lower rates.
    — New York Times, 7 May 2021
  • But for the Googlers who have been asked to work on the project, that has come as cold comfort.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2018
  • But the notion that a book is playing with its genre is cold comfort when the play proves a slog.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Those signs might be cold comfort to people forced to live with the appliances.
    — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
  • For Boyd, the Virginia farmer, this is cold comfort.
    — Hannah Parker, NBC news, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That’s cold comfort for lawmakers who will face voters again in less than two years.
    — Andrew Duehren, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • There’s cold comfort in knowing an entire wave of restaurants will have to close.
    — Edward Lee, Bon Appétit, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Yet, that will be cold comfort because there will be many more impeachments.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Those words were cold comfort to activists who had worked against the efforts to curb voter rights.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
  • That’s cold comfort for the users who were left in the lurch when their accounts were suddenly closed.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 7 July 2021
  • For the men and women who had testified against him, the verdict was cold comfort.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • In the face of all this, the warm weather is a cold comfort, but a comfort nonetheless.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2020
  • For the tens of millions of people whose lives are at stake, however, that is cold comfort.
    — John Mearsheimer, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That's cold comfort to Nkeki, who hasn't been able to let go of her memories.
    — Ali Abare Abubakar and John Dyer, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
  • But the good news may be cold comfort to first-time and other potential homebuyers.
    — Priscilla Almodovar, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But that may be cold comfort for first-time buyers who have been increasingly pushed out of the market.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 22 Dec. 2021
  • That’s cold comfort to a mother and son who used to have a home of their own, Woodward told reporters last week.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That’s cold comfort for Gazans living through the bombardment.
    — NBC News, 14 May 2021
  • But that’s surely cold comfort to the Russian tank crews who are getting blasted now.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Energy and food prices made up much of the May increase, but this is cold comfort for consumers.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 June 2022
  • That Putin has not yet taken that step, even in the face of huge casualties, is cold comfort.
    — Rose McDermott, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2023
  • However, this is cold comfort in a state once renowned for its business- and family-friendly tax code.
    — Victor Riches, National Review, 13 Nov. 2020

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