Example Sentences

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The plant hasn’t been in use for several years and the men were salvaging material from the building when it collapsed, Kirk said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2023

He was a quiet, very determined human rights lawyer who was supervising a group of sweating, dusty, younger men - lawyers like him - who were salvaging the prison records.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2013

Mr. Faubion and others were salvaging all manner of supplies from the hospital, even beds and pillows and oxygen tanks.

From New York Times • May 24, 2011

While fair participants were salvaging what they could, fair investors were licking their wounds.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Reyna and I did a quest there about a year ago. We were salvaging Imperial gold weapons from the C.S.S. Hunley.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan