How to Use saving grace in a Sentence

saving grace

noun
  • One of her saving graces is a good sense of humor.
  • It's expensive, but the machine's saving grace is its ease of operation.
  • The saving grace in the past was that win or lose, the team was at least a lot of fun to watch.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • One saving grace has been the boom in stock prices since March.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The only saving grace is that the great Bill Camp plays Matt.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The saving grace, as is so often the case in this show, is the details.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Frozen food can be the saving grace of a weeknight meal.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
  • The Deacons have been turnover prone of late, which could be the Knights’ saving grace.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2021
  • The top of the standings didn’t change much, which served as a saving grace for the Empire.
    Sean Collins, Dallas News, 15 June 2020
  • The saving grace is that price is very close to support at $143 which was the point of the last breakout.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The saving grace, of course, has been the play after halftime.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And Havemann said that for him, going to the dog track was the saving grace of his years there.
    Dick Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
  • But the Moisture Surge 100 Hour has been its saving grace.
    Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The saving grace had lately been that if Texas could get to one of its closers, things were safe.
    Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Turns out, those upgrades were the team's saving grace.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The one saving grace is that there’s a finite number of them.
    New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The saving grace is that, left on its own, oak wilt spreads very slowly.
    Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
  • The only saving grace was that the rest of the AFC West wasn’t faring any better.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2019
  • For Shin and Joo, the permit delays were a saving grace.
    Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • With three children at home, my art and projects with them were a saving grace.
    Steven Lindsey, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • By Suzy Khimm | Read more For many, group chats have been the saving grace of the pandemic.
    NBC News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Perhaps a saving grace could come in the form of the annual draft, though.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • Coconut oil—yes, god's gift to the beauty world—proved to be my saving grace.
    Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2018
  • That serves as a common copout and might be a wild attempt at a saving grace.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Which is to say, consumer spending is both the saving grace and the Achilles heel of the U.S. economy.
    Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • That identity has been the saving grace of the Huskies when shots aren’t falling.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Our saving grace is that there is plenty of moisture in the ground which helps buffer the plants.
    Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2021
  • Customers such as Paul and Makaela Bryant say Buc-ee's has been their saving grace.
    al, 14 Aug. 2019
  • One of the few saving graces of bureaucracies is that there is always someone else to turn to.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The fuel has became a saving grace, and constant concern, for the 61-year-old high school teacher.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024

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