Example Sentences

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At the time, a commander told me they were conserving their shells for the counter-offensive.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023

Save Venice only discovered the works by Giulia Lama in the Church of San Marziale, when they were conserving an early Tintoretto there, and the conservator mentioned the paintings by Lama above it.

From BBC • May 3, 2022

Similar to today’s golfers, some tennis players in September 1988 were skeptical and concerned about their safety and were conserving their energy for more established challenges.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016

“Both were conserving reformers who valued traditional systems of authority, most primarily the family,” Weiner writes, and both “interpreted politics in terms of the observable and the concrete rather than the metaphysical and the abstract.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2015

Neutral, because his efforts were conserving, not developmental.

From The Blue Goose by Nason, Frank Lewis