salvage

Example Sentences

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The group came together at Sedalia, Mo., high school, scrounged up money and bought a caboose from a local salvage yard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

To critics, he is a billionaire drawn to the messy business of media without a viable vision for how to salvage it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Over the next decade, a large amount of aluminum from vehicle body panels is expected to enter recycling and salvage systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Can Celtic's 'signing of season' somehow salvage silverware?

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

And there she stayed, for the creek was so slender and the currents so tricky and the oyster beds so perilous that no salvage captains would risk their own vessels to retrieve the Moily Bell.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen