salver

Example Sentences

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Three new biographies underline the premise that life can be tough, even for those who have it handed to them on a silver salver.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2018

These he would pick up from their silver salver and pull on over his long white fingers.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

He looked around, called upon David Moyes, and together they held up the silver salver.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2013

The "quiet Beatle" — the one who told an interviewer, "I'm even more normal than normal people" — was also the nicest Beatle: the most thoughtful and generous, the salver of wounds, forgiver of sins.

From Time • Oct. 5, 2011

There was no sign of a strange cap or stick, and no card on the salver.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier