How to Use salvation in a Sentence

salvation

noun
  • Tourism has been the salvation of the island.
  • Life and death weren’t in the hands of a Haman, nor salvation in the eyes of an Esther.
    David Wolpe, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Art could be the salvation of the world, Penrose once thought.
    Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The film tells the story of a child, bruised by life, who finds salvation through his love of dogs.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 July 2023
  • The electric covenant is nigh, and perhaps the Earth’s salvation is at hand.
    Robin Swithinbank, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim his salvation day after day.
    Blair Donovan, Country Living, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The drama stars Jones as a tortured young man who finds salvation through the love of his dogs.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2023
  • But there was no such salvation in the 10th after loading the bases with no outs.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But its founder thinks a ChatGPT plug-in may be the route to salvation.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The most direct route to textual salvation is to tell him to knock it off.
    Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • My salvation was a Lab mix named Lucky, who came into my life that same year.
    Annette McGivney, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Dan wants to know if polygamy is part of salvation, but an older man — who’s got a gun in his belt — tells Dan to get lost.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • What parent doesn't want salvation from the threat of failing their kids?
    Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The notebook, which seemed at first like her salvation, ends up being her doom.
    Sarah Chihaya, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The nipples on the tetas of the nanny Fidelia were the navigator, the pathfinder, the salvation of all those who lost their way.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • In a roundabout way, water also led to the site’s salvation.
    Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
  • In Islam, salvation is earned through one’s own hard work.
    Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
  • But this would mean that Bibi’s own goal, of self-salvation, wouldn’t be realized.
    Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Suffering, in the Catholic framework of things, leads to salvation.
    Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The graveyard of Democrats' ambitions could wind up as the salvation of an agenda.
    Rick Klein, ABC News, 1 July 2022
  • Others died trying to keep Hawkins’ sole source of salvation safe.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 5 July 2022
  • Was Moses following a path of salvation, or was Moses just looking for the future Mrs. Moses of his dreams?
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 10 May 2023
  • Trusting with the heart leads to righteousness, and confessing with the mouth leads to salvation.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • But for her neighborhood, in the grip of a drug crisis, salvation seems remote.
    Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Jesus himself laid out in parable the things that were important to his brand of salvation, the things on which one might be judged.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Those who wait for God will be rewarded with salvation for their trust.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 11 July 2022
  • Redemption and salvation carry equal weight with the more earthy matters central to the blues.
    al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • After a grueling leg day at the gym, that first cool glass of water feels like salvation.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 22 Sep. 2022
  • We’ve often been warned against any idea that humans can co-operate in the work of salvation.
    TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Andrews, who died last year, taught Martin about the salvation that can come from music.
    Nereya Otieno, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023

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