salvage

Example Sentences

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Sometimes he’s just out there for fun, but often he’s wielding his submersible Excalibur II metal detector to salvage someone’s destination wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

To critics, he is a billionaire drawn to the messy business of media without a viable vision for how to salvage it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Over the next decade, a large amount of aluminum from vehicle body panels is expected to enter recycling and salvage systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

It took an injury-time Benjamin Sesko goal to salvage a point.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

It sent me tumbling through my own abyss of sorts, trying to salvage what I could of my feelings and emotions, which would be scattered to the winds as she talked.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride