Example Sentences

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Robinson ordered bandages, dressings, salves and creams online, but it was clear Dwelaniyah was in agony.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024

For topical preparations, Extracts are incorporated into many skin products: soaps, creams, ointments, salves, and lotions with various concentrations of calendula.

From National Geographic • Feb. 7, 2024

There are few better salves for the pain of a cross-town drive than the prepared food sections of Koreatown grocery stores.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2023

But pre-Amazon merger, you weren’t also dodging results for Amazon Prime TV shows, toys, salves and anything else Amazon thinks a searcher of Spider-Man comics might want to buy.

From The Verge • May 30, 2022

We took the fine saddlebags off the horse and filled them with salves and herbs, blue grass for washing my hair, extra sweaters, dried peaches.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston