SALVATION in a Sentence

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But now with the ports closed and many of the port cities captured or besieged, the South's salvation depended upon itself.

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 Meanings and Examples of SALVATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
salvation
 n.  act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  Its object, salvation; its means thereto, sacrifice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME
2  That which was Adam's ruin might prove Gavroche's salvation.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
3  This house might prove their salvation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
4  Utility of a vice: his drunkenness had been his salvation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
5  Swear, by your hopes of salvation, to keep her safely for the chastisement she has merited.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER
6  I pardon you for my blasted future, my lost honor, my defiled love, and my salvation forever compromised by the despair into which you have cast me.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
7  If you love your child as a good father, you will not desire only wealth, luxury, honor for your infant; you will be anxious for his salvation, his spiritual enlightenment with the light of truth.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
8  In Him alone we find peace, consolation, salvation, and love, she said, and turning her eyes heavenwards, she began praying, as Alexey Alexandrovitch gathered from her silence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 22
9  But the fact that he had in this transient, trivial life made, as it seemed to him, a few trivial mistakes tortured him as though the eternal salvation in which he believed had no existence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
10  And so it is, princess, that I am shamelessly clutching at you as an anchor of salvation.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 21
11  There was nothing left for me but to think of my eternal salvation.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
12  But now with the ports closed and many of the port cities captured or besieged, the South's salvation depended upon itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  It was salvation to push the heavy tables, to scrub them, to be exact in placing the sheet.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Entreaties, cuffs, and kicks could not drive them back, so at their own instance they were put down in the ship's run for salvation.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
15  It is to you that I come with my message of salvation, it is to you that I appeal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
Example Sentence:
1  If, indeed, such salvation be possible, for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut.
2  This salvation is actually bestowed on none but those who obey Christ.
3  Praying for salvation, young Steven Daedalus feared he was damned to eternal perdition.
4  A drug treatment program was Ron's salvation.
5  The church's message of salvation has changed the lives of many.