How to Use salvation in a Sentence
salvation
noun- Tourism has been the salvation of the island.
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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 -
Their faith and doubts, their search for salvation in the desert.
— Chloe Melas, CNN, 16 June 2021 -
Art could be the salvation of the world, Penrose once thought.
— Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2022 -
The path to salvation is a stretch of roadside near the border of Brazil.
— The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2021 -
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 film tells the sprawling story of a child, bruised by life, who grows to find his salvation through the love of his dogs.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Jan. 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 -
The teens were asked to give their lives over to Jesus to find purpose and salvation.
— CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022 -
The voucher was a salvation, but life at the Motel 6 wasn’t easy.
— Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020 -
But there was no such salvation in the 10th after loading the bases with no outs.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023 -
Now that the body has been engaged and the mind unwound, the soul is left awaiting salvation.
— Brennan Kilban, Allure, 27 July 2021 -
But its founder thinks a ChatGPT plug-in may be the route to salvation.
— Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023 -
Yes, the spin-off that almost consigned the franchise to the direct-to-DVD bin would be the key to its salvation.
— Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 22 June 2021 -
For all that Erik Spoelstra’s team has been through this season, the path to salvation is at hand.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 May 2021 -
The most direct route to textual salvation is to tell him to knock it off.
— Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022 -
The problem is that his people are looking for salvation in the wrong place.
— Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021 -
My salvation was a Lab mix named Lucky, who came into my life that same year.
— Annette McGivney, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022 -
Like the first two Conjurings, the film drills down on the fact that love is more than just good, and maybe a form of salvation itself.
— Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021 -
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 -
As an incoming high-school freshman, Brown hoped to find salvation in the drill team, the Bearkadettes, but didn’t make the cut.
— Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
The company had been close to bankruptcy and was now in the fourth stage, grasping for salvation.
— Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024 -
For most, salvation comes from a jump in the pool or time spent in the air conditioning, but everyone here is influenced by the heat in their daily lives.
— Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2024
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