Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sanative
Adjective
  • Inside an office, a doctor told Ross that the top of his ligament was healthy and strong.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 8 July 2025
  • That gunk could indicate that the river ecosystem isn’t healthy, Eichert told the Statesman, which could be due to dams upriver changing the historical flooding in the region.
    Alex Music July 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, horehound candy tastes distinctly bittersweet and almost medicinal, due to its herby main ingredient that gets only slightly jazzed up with sugar or molasses.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
  • Caligula was also convinced that his own father, Germanicus, died from poisoning, a belief that may have encouraged him to study medicinal plants in order to avoid the same fate.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • But maybe, in an odd way, the timing is good, given the looming July 31 trade deadline.
    Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
  • My hope is that in the next year or two the Heat can open up the roster and have the dollars to get one or two really good players to complement Bam and Tyler Herro and hopefully Kel’el Ware. – Joel, Fort Lauderdale.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Adjective
  • While supporters of incinerators cite the facilities’ use of high-level technology and that emissions are within healthful limits, environmentalists emphasize that incinerators still release carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, lead, mercury, dioxins, cadmium and particulate matter.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2025
  • The menus designed for each Female Wellness guest are crafted specifically to their needs but are in line with the company’s overall sustainable, local, healthful plans.
    Laurie Werner, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • The chapter’s first section responds to a tendency in Harry Potter studies to interpret the series as if its version of magic portrays a profoundly different and salutary alternative to Muggle technology.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • And yet a more equal world remains a salutary objective.
    Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2023
Adjective
  • At a moment as troubled as this one, to escape from this time into time itself is somehow salubrious.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Others wondered whether his election will have salubrious effects on Pakistan’s shambolic economy, foreign policy, or internal security.
    C. Christine Fair, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2018
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“Sanative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanative. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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