Sample Sentences for
salve
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    With a bottle of peroxide and a can of salve I would doctor their wounds.  (source)
    salve = cream or liquid that is put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
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    Or Sonja, who needed salve on her own maternal wounds.  (source)
    salve = something that eases pain
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    To salve his loneliness in the years after the accident, he started unofficially "adopting" indigent Okinawan boys and girls, eventually taking fourteen of them under his wing, paying for the oldest to attend medical school in Philadelphia and another to study medicine in Japan.  (source)
    salve = make less painful
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    When she stopped, she had washed his hand with cool water and soothed him with warm hugs and wrapped with salve and bandages the place where the fire soldier had stabbed him.  (source)
    salve = a cream or liquid put onto skin to make it feel better or heal
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    No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform.†  (source)
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    The response was so overwhelmingly positive that it salved the wounds of the death threats he'd received soon after 9/11.†  (source)
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    It was not my intention to hurt or humiliate her; the irony of it was that the plan I conceived had as its purpose the salving of Granny's frustrated feelings toward me.†  (source)
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    He smells like sweat and fresh air and mint, from the salve he sometimes uses to relax his sore muscles.  (source)
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    This room, like everything he had seen as he ran through the hospital, was chaotic — bottles of medicines thrown off shelves and broken, salves spattered on the walls, instruments strewn everywhere.†  (source)
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    He was not going up there to be salved and bandaged, but to engage in the fray, and with serious intent.†  (source)
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    I wondered if the world outside was so bad for us that we had to counter it among ourselves by salving one another with kindness.†  (source)
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    Mother dressed the leg in mullein and comfrey salve, her own recipe.  (source)
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    Pictures came off the walls, the monkeys with scarlet nose holes, the runner from Tashkent, egg cups, salves and medicines, her eiderdown from the closet shelf.†  (source)
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