saving grace

noun

: a redeeming quality or factor

Examples of saving grace in a Sentence

It's expensive, but the machine's saving grace is its ease of operation.

One of her saving graces is a good sense of humor.

Recent Examples on the Web

This is a tough schedule, but the saving grace is that Michigan plays eight home games and leaves Ann Arbor only once before Halloween. — Austin Meek, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Mereu’s sure hand with his actors is a saving grace, with Perrone and Maenza particularly well-cast, and DP Francesco Piras lights them to perfection while being in perfect synch with the director’s reverence for the natural world. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

That sense of purgatory is the saving grace of an otherwise painful watch. — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026

Alas, the nine innings that followed that news were no saving grace. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for saving grace

• aerospace
• anatase
• anyplace
• commonplace
• cyberspace
• database
• diabase
• diastase
• dnase
• elastase
• fireplace
• hyperspace