How to Use savior in a Sentence

savior

noun
  • We all felt that she was our savior.
  • The savior on the mound for the Pirates was sophomore Nayeli Adame.
    Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2024
  • This playing the savior of the world sure costs lots of money.
    Thérèse Shaheen, National Review, 3 Dec. 2023
  • About your eyes, not a savior’s eyes but brown as blood.
    Eugenia Leigh, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • What was once a Maserati savior is now idling at the sidelines.
    Mark Maynard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2019
  • There is one God and one savior, and it’s You, and Your name is Jesus.
    al.com, 3 June 2019
  • This pastor led him in a prayer to trust Christ as his savior.
    al, 18 June 2021
  • My faith celebrates the birth of a savior who would transform the world.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Instead, the Sharks’ free-agent signing has turned out to be a savior.
    Ross McKeon, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Nov. 2021
  • More of a twisted way to torture the poor woman and her would-be saviors.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • No sign of a savior, either, anyone to help her out of this mess.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024
  • So is Corenswet the savior DC needs to help bring the studio back to life faster than a speeding bullet?
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 June 2023
  • The meltdown was fast-moving, and Mr. Dervis, at the time a vice president of the World Bank, was seen as a savior.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • The jump-man appears to try and spit on his savior, who then helps him by pushing him out of the window.
    Emmett Jones, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Learn how to roast a chicken, and find your new weeknight recipe savior.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2023
  • But just like our lord and savior Jesus Christ Aslan the lion, the film series has risen.
    Vulture, 3 July 2023
  • When James signed with the Lakers, the franchise had missed the playoffs six years in a row and needed a savior.
    Tania Ganguli, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • And there’s Valerie’s son: the wunderkind savior, Xavier.
    Kiley Reid, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Marsalis was the savior burdened by critics with reigniting the genre’s flame.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 16 July 2024
  • In these years, the AR-15 came to be seen as the industry’s financial savior.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The savior of Ohio’s automotive sector just didn’t seem all that up to the job.
    Patrick George, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
  • Whether or not Queen will be the savior of Kevin Willard’s Maryland program remains to be seen.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • For many Tunisians, Mr. Saied is the savior of the country, not the destroyer of democracy.
    Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Her savior wasn’t the doctor who peered at her X-rays and prescribed inhalers that didn’t help.
    Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2022
  • But Musk’s savior complex has taken a beating over the years.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In the heady days following the Battle of Gettysburg, the press exalted Meade as the savior of the Union.
    Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • Your political views should not be mixed with the birth of our savior.
    Hollie Silverman, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
  • They were thought to be the local saviors of a storied franchise that had fallen on hard times.
    Arash Markazi, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • Flaherty, the Dodgers’ late-season savior, held the Yankees to two runs in 5⅓ innings in the opener while Cole held the Dodgers to one run in six innings.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Now, as a Bears rookie, Williams has catalyzed a 4-2 start and has much of a passionate fan base believing the never-ending search for a QB savior may be over.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 26 Oct. 2024

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