SAVE in a Sentence

Learn SAVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
390 example sentences for SAVE, such as:
1. It's our duty to save water.
2. Laugh at your ills, And save doctors' bills.
3. It will save trouble if you pay the bill now.
4. Live within your means and save for a rainy day.
5. Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SAVE
save
 v.  retain rights to
 n.  (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a "To Let" card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  None came save his own cry, which clattered up the dreary silent ravines, and was borne back to his ears in countless repetitions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
4  Bewildered and stunned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  I went on cabbing it for a day or so, intending to keep at it until I could save enough to take me back to America.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
6  He refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
7  Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
8  Thick of waist, large of limb, and, save for her hair, fashionable in the tight modern way, she never looked like Sappho, or one of the beautiful young men whose photographs adorned the weekly papers.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  She would save a slice for Sunny--his drawing-room name Sung-Yen had undergone a kitchen change into Sunny.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  Only maids about her, never a man to my knowledge, save Clout the serving man, who has a wart on his nose and a face like a nutgrater.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
11  But he made straight for the door, crossing the roadway to save time; and as he came, he drew a key from his pocket like one approaching home.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
12  We have come too late," he said sternly, "whether to save or punish.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
13  If your master has fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
14  You may be certain that I will save you at whatever cost.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  All that I know is, your philosophy and your teaching will not save me.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
2  The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through woman she alone can save it.
3  He will always be a slave who knows not how to earn and save.
4  I am in a position to save you a good deal of time.
5  It will save trouble if you pay the bill now.
6  It is the final proof of God's omnipltence that he need not exist in order to save us.
7  We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves.
8  It's our duty to save water.
9  Spend not where you may save; spare not where you must spend.
10  Live within your means and save for a rainy day.
11  It was too late to save the sick woman, and she died.
12  An operation is beginning to try to save a species of crocodile from extinction.
13  Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
14  Laugh at your ills, And save doctors' bills.
15  Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to save money for business ventures.