How to Use curative in a Sentence

curative

adjective

• Deep wounds from the past can only be healed by the curative power of love and friendship.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• In the town of Bad Birnbach, known for its curative thermal baths.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2017
• Shot in the shadow of the Swiss Alps, the film depicts the curative aspects of its surroundings.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 27 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Its curative powers turn your skin and nails softer than when you were born.
  — GQ, 30 June 2017
• 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
• The hotel supposedly attracted celebrities in the '40s and '50s for its curative baths and, of course, the hot springs.
  — Sara Lessley, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Forbes’s tours will bring you right back to the Dutch Hospital, which these days is better known for curative treatments in the form of shopping and dining.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Apr. 2018
• Such large quantities of cash do seem to have curative value.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• The stones have curative mineral properties; the staff had placed dozens of yak butter candles around me in a potato field (ah, Aman).
  — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• The stones have curative mineral properties; the staff had placed dozens of yak butter candles around me in a potato field (ah, Aman).
  — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But by giving so freely of his time and of himself, what Mraz taught the kids, consciously or not, is that music is a great natural curative, maybe even the greatest of all.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019
• More books, based on the Course, followed at a regular clip — at least six have climbed the New York Times best-seller list — each offering nostrums on the curative power of thought.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Despite its curative properties, Castle Hot Springs went up in flames in 1975.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
• This extraordinary curative treatment came on the market in 2012, but at a high price.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• Perhaps the most surprising takeaway from the show is one of Nightingale’s prescriptions—the curative importance of clean, healthy air.
  — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• The curative powers of garlic combined with classic South Texas spices makes this a perfect comfort dish for anyone getting over a cold.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 18 Mar. 2020
• But the cough was back by midmorning, which led me to speculate that any curative value of the booze is mostly about adding enough to put you temporarily out of your misery.
  — M. Carrie Allan, charlotteobserver, 23 Jan. 2018
• Unlike in humans, the goal isn’t curative, but palliative.
  — S.e. Smith, Longreads, 2 Nov. 2017
• 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
• 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
• But the specific pathways by which the virus does so are still being elucidated, and curative treatments are nonexistent.
  — Ziyad Al-Aly, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024