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
  • 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 Bible tells us to pray for our leaders — for their salvation.
    Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • In Montana, the GPS searches for my salvation, fore and aft.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The company had been close to bankruptcy and was now in the fourth stage, grasping for salvation.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2024
  • White Christian evangelicals emphasize personal salvation and strict social norms around gender.
    Axios, 28 Oct. 2024

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