Example Sentences

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The third injection was my last, and there’s no meaningful sign that the treatment is salvaging my devastated nerve, as it’s meant to.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2018

Mr. Watts is a handsome antiques dealer, but that’s just a facade for his real work, which is salvaging imperiled details from New York buildings.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2017

Or you can wander straight over to a sport — college hockey — where Michigan is salvaging some of its school’s ego.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2010

Some 30 ft. down and only 1,200 ft. out from the sunbathers on Cape Cod's Marconi Beach, Clifford is salvaging booty from the Whydah, a 100-ft.-long pirate galley that foundered on a sandbank in 1717.

From Time Magazine Archive