Example Sentences

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“Destitute of all comfort and company,” he salvages what he can from the wreckage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

He also salvages fallen street trees or storm-damaged wood.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Baltimore’s Recreation and Parks Department salvages wood from city trees and redirects it to Camp Small, a city-run processing facility, where it’s used in city construction or sold to residents.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2022

Can reporting out his own high-school scandal in first person, against everything he’s been taught about journalism, be the click-o-rama that salvages his career?

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

He charms the druggist’s wife into giving him a broken earphone; he salvages a solenoid from a discarded doorbell, solders it to a resistor, and makes a loudspeaker.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr