salved

Example Sentences

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Any spectators feeling short-changed would have been salved by Hatton v Flint, a high-energy and bruising encounter.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

After Gore’s defeat, Klain salved his wounds in classic Washington fashion: by making tons of cash.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2021

The area would obviously be free territory if it ever joined the American Union, so northern Democrats salved their discomfort over Texas with the belligerent chant “fifty-four forty or fight!”

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Madison Square Garden, replete in boxing history, staged a UFC card for the ages Saturday night that salved the sting of the organization’s uneventful year and boosts 2018 with a slate of irresistible matchups.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2017

All the time they were to go on bleeding, turn about, until the best knight in the world had tended them and salved them with his hands.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White