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Examples of salve in a Sentence
Kaitlyn McInnis, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2023
Immersing yourself in an activity that absorbs your attention can be a salve for anxiety, and lead to community and friendships.
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
The salve is made with oats and feverfew, a plant packed with antioxidants, that reverses dullness, dryness, and redness.
—Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 28 Aug. 2023
Cultivating a sense of wonder can be a salve for a turbulent mind.
—Christina Caron, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
Bloom Hemp offers a variety of topicals such as creams, balms, and salves infused with CBD oil.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023
For the all-day listeners, however, the practice could be a godsend for focus or a salve for social isolation.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
In these moments, Functional Fragrance served as an emotional salve to me and my family members—at the height of the nerve-racking hospital visit, whiffs of the scent offered moments of reprieve to us all.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
One salve for the pain of discarding books is the prospect of turning them into a few extra bucks at a used book store.
—Gabe Bullard, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
Her selection to the Jamaican national team helped salve that disappointment.
—Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
But her ministrations aren’t quite enough to salve the imperial insecurities, as unrest threatens to unravel man and state.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
Instead, the author’s emphasis is more contemporary and results-oriented: Why, for instance, might the Jewish practice of covering mirrors salve the sting of grief?
—Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2021
His reappearance carries grave risks not only for Bolsonaro, who is facing multiple criminal inquiries and the possibility of arrest on a wide range of alleged wrongdoing, but also for Brazil, whose barely salved political wounds Bolsonaro’s inflammatory politicking could reopen.
—Marina Dias, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
Officials and analysts hope the deal will give Israel more security, allow Lebanon greater leeway in the future to salve its crippling energy and financial crises, and provide Europe with a potential new source of gas amid energy shortages caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
—Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
Both are plenty smart, and as in most good partnerships (and good marriages), their respective strengths salve their weaknesses, while their long history prevents serious friction.
—Randall Lane, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
To help salve the pain, the state is planning to do something that has generated quite a lot of controversy: pump more water from underground aquifers to allow farmers who would otherwise be cut off from irrigation water to continue growing crops in the desert.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2019
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, from Old English sealf; akin to Old High German salba salve, Greek olpē oil flask
Verb (2)
back-formation from salvage
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (2)
circa 1706, in the meaning defined above
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“Salve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salve. Accessed 4 Oct. 2023.
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