How to Use preservation in a Sentence

preservation

noun
  • The status of the preservation of that bridge is, so to speak, up in the air.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The 90-year-old was then placed into a body bag and sent to the morgue for preservation.
    Stepheny Price, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Its age and preservation both play a role in its uniqueness.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2024
  • There are some great trails to explore in the 8,000 or so acres under preservation.
    Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But most of my memories of her are nestled in the growing, the cooking, the preservation of food.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Colorado’s housing agency works with groups across the state on preservation and has a fund to help.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Some states, like Florida, have moved to help the preservation of land and archives.
    Gerard Albert, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
  • What's maybe good for his ranch might be good for all the rest of the ranches in Montana as well — the preservation of a way of life, less expansion.
    Lynn Elber, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Would a court accept the argument that this fell under the city’s power to make rules for the preservation of morals?
    Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • For the Yurok, the fight to remove dams is the latest in a series of struggles over the river’s management and the preservation of their way of life.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And in the scene with her landlord, Inez is biting her tongue as self preservation.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Some simply have to do with the preservation of moods and motifs from the original series, but some are new.
    Mike Hale, New York Times, 17 July 2023
  • Many have been successfully subverted by these tactics and don’t see the threat to the preservation of our way of life.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 July 2024
  • Chavis said the property has nine oak trees, six of which are planned for preservation, but did not specify which trees.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Both this sense of community and the preservation of trees were part of New Mark Commons’ plan from the beginning.
    Barbara Ruben, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The most critical phase of AB’s chess brain preservation—and the one that turned out to be the most insightful—would have to wait until the surgery itself began.
    Gary Stix, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Here, on the shores of Kuskokwim Bay, is the richest record of Yup’ik life prior to contact with Russian sailors yet unearthed for study and preservation.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • With an aging roster and an 82-game season, the team’s medical staff has erred on the side of caution and preservation.
    C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The president wants to fund the building and preservation of 2 million housing units — a meaningful sum, but not enough to solve the shortage.
    Josh Boak, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Why start this business, why work in historic preservation?
    Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This plan aims to ensure the preservation and survival of this vulnerable species.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Amid the overall decline of Black beaches, Highland’s ties to its founders—and the wealth of its residents—helped ensure its preservation.
    Cj Blair, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 June 2023
  • The ground is terrible for bone preservation; gypsum eats away at bone fossils.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The history of tatau, and its preservation, is also tied to the colonization of the Pacific.
    Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • At its core, Modernism Week is about historic preservation.
    Lisa Boonestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In reality, though, both of them rely upon the preservation and promotion of the same man.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Because Quechua is an oral language, songs play a critical role in its preservation.
    Sisa Quispe, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Their preservation must be weighed against any permit streamlining efforts that would put them at risk.
    Kim Dinkins, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • For the best bets in the luxury space, long-term brand preservation is everything, says Deiya Pernas, cofounder of Pernas Research.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Bryant also conducted a neighborhood planning study for the Joe Louis Greenway for residents living nearby, along with crafting a historic preservation plan for the city.
    Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 28 Nov. 2024

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