From the look on her face his words were scant comfort in such company.

This scant comfort, methinks, will not be available to us.

That's scant comfort, though, if retirement is around the corner.

That was scant comfort to those who paid taxes but didn't hold bonds.

No matter how smooth the smoke was, it gave scant comfort.

Yet the underlying trend may provide scant comfort for investors.

Their punishment, such as it was, provided scant comfort to Malcolm.

All of which is scant comfort to your mother, nephew.

It is scant comfort to know that the polluter will pay in the end.

But that was scant comfort with another storm on the way.