salved
Example Sentences
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Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024
Some involve personal lapses, which may be salved with a show of humility and contrition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
If paper could have salved our wounds, we would have been healed.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021
All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
