Roanna couldn't hold back another moan, and she yearned for the dubious comfort of her closed eyes, but she couldn't look away.

The driver held a hand to his wounded shoulder and refused the dubious comfort of the coach.

He took dubious comfort in the knowledge that now, at least, he could be sure he wasn't going crazy.

Jerry nodded and started back to his cottage, to the dubious, transitory comfort of a warm bed, when Sylvia's voice stopped him.

Janey might be getting sick herself, might be finally getting genuinely scared, might be grasping at whatever dubious comfort her thumb could offer.

All I had going was the dubious comfort I could take from knowing that Crask had no cause to go to all this trouble just to ice me.

The Fool had spread Hap's bedding on the floor before the hearth, and we had abandoned our chairs to sprawl in the dubious comfort there.

She'd seldom availed herself of those dubious comforts, whatever the freedoms allowed by their contract.

"Up farther where it's colder we'll be able to use pitons," Prior said, for all the dubious comfort that was worth.

For Matt Tong, the drummer for the London band Bloc Party, a hotel chain provides steady, if dubious, comfort.