How to Use curative in a Sentence

curative

adjective

• Its curative powers turn your skin and nails softer than when you were born.
  — GQ, 30 June 2017
• In my opinion, there’s something so curative about a warm bowl of pho.
  — Samantha Husted, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2024
• At the core of her work is a belief in the curative power of ballet.
  — Cornelia Powers, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2025
• Deep wounds from the past can only be healed by the curative power of love and friendship.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• Such large quantities of cash do seem to have curative value.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• No word yet on whether the streamer will have the same curative properties that Vick’s does.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• In the town of Bad Birnbach, known for its curative thermal baths.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2017
• But in the moments after, the culture of medicine proves curative and restorative.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• At the shrine, the faithful filed through an adjacent room that holds a small pit of dirt that some say has curative powers.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• In the food-as-medicine world, food can be used in lifestyle or preventative medicine as well as curative medicine.
  — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 26 May 2024
• There are no curative treatments or vaccines for Guinea worm disease.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• And this Truth is not only curative but preventive.
  — Melissa Hayden, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2025
• Various treatments have been proposed, but none of them curative.
  — David Malebranche, STAT, 4 June 2020
• Next year, two curative gene therapies could be approved for sickle cell disease.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 19 Dec. 2022
• That’s a good way of diagnosing at the early stage where more curative treatment like surgery can be applied.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2019
• In the decades that followed, word of the curative powers of those mineral waters spread across the young nation.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2020
• Embracing a curative culture appears to require a great deal of effort on the part of leaders.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• The oils of this fragrant Mediterranean native are curative for muscle aches and painful arthritis, too.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• He was enthralled by the science — by the curative powers of the medications.
  — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2018
• Since there’s no preventive or curative medicine, avoiding infection is the best course of action.
  — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 29 Jan. 2026
• Everything that exists beyond the everyday is curative for you right now.
  — Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 20 Aug. 2018
• In the past, as now, red coral was valued for its beauty, and in many cultures it is still believed to have protective and curative powers.
  — Autumn Spanne, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2021
• Unfortunately, the curative effects of a high-pressure, once-a-month pop-up don’t come in a bottle.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
• To qualify, patients must agree to forgo curative care and be certified by doctors as having less than six months to live.
  — Ava Kofman, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Shot in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, the film depicts the curative aspects of its surroundings.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• Even if cancer is resected for curative intent, there may be a high risk of recurrence, so chemotherapy may be used.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2024
• Her grandmother was a natural healer who taught her about the curative properties or herbal teas and flowers.
  — Julia Lieblich, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Because people enrolled in hospice forgo curative care, fraud can harm patients who don’t intend to sign up for the service.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 6 Dec. 2022
• Dunbar provided more than curative medicine.
  — Anita Moncrease, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2026
• The mystery of the crucifix and the curative dirt proved irresistible to pilgrims who slowly trickled in.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023