Example Sentences

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Ms. Richardson had been conserving her energy until then, but she let loose a bit during the show.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Hildebrand was running on older tires than Wheldon, and he had been conserving fuel.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2011

Last week on Easter Sunday a canonization ceremony, for which he had been conserving his waning strength, brough aged Pope Pius XI into St. Peter's in Rome for his first public appearance this year.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 23 months and 13 days, the Navy had been conserving and rebuilding its strength, shattered at Pearl Harbor.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Everybody in the village was out, lining the road; everybody, from M�re Perigord to infants in arms, displaying the smiles they had been conserving while they had been glaring at the Germans.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick