Example Sentences

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I can’t tell whether they are saluting or trolling us.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Elton John, Mavis Staples, Mumford, Brittany Howard, T Bone Burnett and Zac Brown are saluting the late Levon Helm, who won the Americana Grammy last year a few months before his death.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2013

“We are saluting our people for this zeal in protecting their religion, to grant victory to the Prophet,” the spokesman said.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2012

Much more typical was a headline in Israel's largest daily, Yedioth Ahronoth: "The world is attacking, we are saluting."

From Time • Jun. 11, 2010

Trois: you turn your head toward the superior officer whom you are saluting and throw the hand back quickly into position six paces after having passed him.—Trois!

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William