SAVING in a Sentence

Learn SAVING 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 SAVING, such as:
1. He was saving his energy for next week's race in Belgium.
2. Interest accrued from the money leave in my saving account.
3. The consecutive file saving method also created some problems.
4. He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
5. Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SAVING
saving
 n.  the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
 a.  bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Funds were wanting, however, and for some time he had to return to work, saving every dollar for his approaching journey.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
2  There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
3  His home, in such another street as the first, saving that it was narrower, was over a little shop.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
4  But they got through the Act with great self-possession; and Mr. Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more expression into his locomotive eye than into his fixed one.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  Clifford and his cronies were not anti-social; they were more or less bent on saving mankind, or on instructing it, to say the least.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  It might not be saving them much, but it was something, and I could not bear to sit at my ease and be dragged up at the expense of those noble animals.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  Mrs. Norris seemed as much delighted with the saving it would be to Sir Thomas as with any part of it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  I see no saving in parish children, not I; for they always cost more to keep, than they're worth.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
10  When I told him every detail he gave it up and thought only of saving his own skin.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze
11  He was ready enough to join the conspiracy, as the only means of saving ourselves, and before we had crossed the Bay there were only two of the prisoners who were not in the secret.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
12  Then he implored me to keep his secret for three days longer, so as to give his wretched accomplice a chance of saving his guilty life.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
13  Grandma Fontaine had never completely recovered from the heart attack she had the day she led the others in beating out the flames and saving the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  And she was so grateful to Frank for saving Tara she felt a warm affection for him and an equally warm determination that he should never regret marrying her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Scarlett did not mean to be short tempered and she really wanted to make Frank a good wife, for she was fond of him and grateful for his help in saving Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (180 in 13 pages)
1  The consecutive file saving method also created some problems.
2  What's inconceivable is if you use the password saving feature, all your passwords are displayed in your settings with no encryption.
3  She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants.
4  He may be stupid and mean, but his one saving grace is his humour.
5  Interest accrued from the money leave in my saving account.
6  Because his paycheck is often spent before it even hits the bank, saving is often not an option.
7  He says he lost consciousness on the way to the hospital and says he was practically dying when he was given a life saving blood transfusion.
8  For many, the most important saving they have is for a pension for their retirement.
9  Ageing's one saving grace is you worry less about what people think.
10  Teenager Matt Brown is being hailed a hero for saving a young child from drowning.
11  He arranges to collect the payment from the customer, thus saving the client the paperwork.
12  An interest rate increase directly stimulates saving and reduces real expenditure.
13  He was saving his energy for next week's race in Belgium.
14  Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
15  It is possible to premix the ore at the shipping point, thus saving time at the iron works.