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Example sentences for: salvage

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Blue-and-white agapanthus cling to the top of the promontory, and pine and eucalyptus creep right to the edge, but an even greater degree of daring can be seen hundreds of feet below, where farmers have managed to salvage tiny plots of arable land, terracing them into little green postage stamps stuck onto the sides and base of the cliff.
And since your father wants to come to Christmas dinner (strangely, Prudie thinks) the mechanistic thing to do to salvage the night is to quietly tell your dad that your mom hasn't broken the news to her friend ...
Elisabeth Benjamin was able to salvage some things from 90 Church St. But fears of what wafted into her office are causing her to throw out almost all of them.
(Only the better American colleges can salvage the mess left by high school, and they are only as good as they are because of the competition and diversity among them.)
Bell wants to salvage the theory by introducing distinctions and complications.