How to Use saving grace in a Sentence

saving grace

noun

• One of her saving graces is a good sense of humor.
• It's expensive, but the machine's saving grace is its ease of operation.
• The saving grace in the past was that win or lose, the team was at least a lot of fun to watch.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
• One saving grace has been the boom in stock prices since March.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
• The only saving grace is that the great Bill Camp plays Matt.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
• The saving grace, as is so often the case in this show, is the details.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
• Frozen food can be the saving grace of a weeknight meal.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
• The Deacons have been turnover prone of late, which could be the Knights’ saving grace.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2021
• The top of the standings didn’t change much, which served as a saving grace for the Empire.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 15 June 2020
• The saving grace is that price is very close to support at $143 which was the point of the last breakout.
  — Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• The saving grace, of course, has been the play after halftime.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
• And Havemann said that for him, going to the dog track was the saving grace of his years there.
  — Dick Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
• But the Moisture Surge 100 Hour has been its saving grace.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2021
• The saving grace had lately been that if Texas could get to one of its closers, things were safe.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• Turns out, those upgrades were the team's saving grace.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2020
• The one saving grace is that there’s a finite number of them.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• The saving grace is that, left on its own, oak wilt spreads very slowly.
  — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• The only saving grace was that the rest of the AFC West wasn’t faring any better.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
• For Shin and Joo, the permit delays were a saving grace.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
• With three children at home, my art and projects with them were a saving grace.
  — Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
• By Suzy Khimm | Read more For many, group chats have been the saving grace of the pandemic.
  — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
• Perhaps a saving grace could come in the form of the annual draft, though.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• Coconut oil—yes, god's gift to the beauty world—proved to be my saving grace.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2018
• That serves as a common copout and might be a wild attempt at a saving grace.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• Which is to say, consumer spending is both the saving grace and the Achilles heel of the U.S. economy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• That identity has been the saving grace of the Huskies when shots aren’t falling.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2022
• Our saving grace is that there is plenty of moisture in the ground which helps buffer the plants.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
• Customers such as Paul and Makaela Bryant say Buc-ee's has been their saving grace.
  — al, 14 Aug. 2019
• One of the few saving graces of bureaucracies is that there is always someone else to turn to.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
• The fuel has became a saving grace, and constant concern, for the 61-year-old high school teacher.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024