Example Sentences

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No one in the art world, he said, showed particular concern, including curators who he said thought they were preserving for public display items that might otherwise disappear into private collections.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

These people may have had plans to move to a different service, simply wanted their own copy or were preserving what they had on Google before deleting it from the company’s servers.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

“It almost looks like they were preserving the space for him,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010

We were preserving Our Lady, and I was content— for the first time since I’d learned about my mother—to be doing what I was doing.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

The principal inhabitants had all been changed into old newspapers, and in that form were preserving their window-blinds from dust, and wrapping all their smaller household gods in curl-papers.

From Reprinted Pieces by Dickens, Charles