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How to use curative in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, noun

Curative means possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness. Example: “The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.”

Examples of curative by meaning

adjectivePossessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

  • The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.
  • He was just as interested in preventive care as he was in curative measures.2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 41

adjectiveRemediative.

  • a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony

More sentences with curative

  • Curative treatment of CC, possible in nearly 80 % of cases, is based on carcinologic surgical resection.2015 July 10, Mehdi Karoui et al., “Neoadjuvant FOLFOX 4 versus FOLFOX 4 with Cetuximab versus immediate surgery for high-risk stage II…. From the entry carcinologic
  • The state was expounded to be “amenable to a curative therapeutic strategy” and “amenable to localized therapy”.2015, Hiroyuki Kaneda, Yukihito Saito, “Oligometastases: defined by prognosis and evaluated by cure”, in Cancer Treatment Communications…. From the entry oligometastasis
  • Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city.1978, Garry Wills, Values Americans live by. From the entry Bethesda
  • It is well known that young gannets or gugas are not only highly edible but their fat has remarkable curative properties.2010, Bryan Nelson, The Gannet. From the entry guga
  • Thalasso is based on the curative effects of seawater and its derivatives: mud, sand, algae, iodine, selenium, other elements.1999, Leaders, volume 22, page 225. From the entry thalasso
  • Unfortunately, there is no evidence that liverworts possess curative properties.1985, W. B. Schofield, Introduction to Bryology, page 135. From the entry liverwort
  • In Southeast Asia, swifts’ nests are gathered for the famous curative delicacy “birdsnest soup,” featuring filmy masses like boiled eggwhites—actually the special gluey saliva swifts work up for constructing nests.1988, Daniel Mathews, Cascade-Olympic Natural History, Raven Editions in conjunction with the Portland Audubon Society, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry birdsnest soup

Meaning of curative

  1. adjective Possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.
  2. adjective Remediative.
  3. noun A substance that acts as a cure.

Full definition of curative

Questions about curative in a sentence

How do you use curative in a sentence?
Curative is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The curative power of the antibiotics introduced in the 1950s was amazing at the time.”
What is a short sentence with curative?
“a curative jury instruction to disregard the sheriff's testimony”
What does curative mean?
Curative means possessing the ability to cure, to heal or treat illness.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curative (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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