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How to use preservation in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Preservation means the act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill. Example: “Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.”

Examples of preservation by meaning

nounThe act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

  • Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 280

nounThe state of being preserved, how something has survived.

  • We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61
  • These fortifications are in good preservation, and rank among the most perfect examples of the strongholds of the 13th century."2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 54

More sentences with preservation

  • Manospheric misogyny has latched on to this "natural" order and insists on its preservation.2021, Rachel Guy, “Nation of Men: Diagnosing Manospheric Misogyny as Virulent Online Nationalism”, in The Georgetown Journal of Gender and…. From the entry manospheric
  • In contrast to cold preservation, the concept of normothermic preservation is to maintain the cellular metabolism.2011, Korkut Uygun, Charles Y. Lee, Methods in Bioengineering: Organ Preservation and Reengineering, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry normothermic
  • Cold preservation is a component of the donor organ resection procedure, not the backbench preparation.2009, Michelle Green, 3-2-1 Code It!, →ISBN, page 523. From the entry backbench
  • It gave advice on preservation, renovation, and repair of clothing and other household goods.2000 Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955. From the entry make do and mend
  • The prime directive of Austrian policy was the preservation of this state of affairs.1955, René Albrecht-Carrié, Europe After 1815, page 32. From the entry prime directive
  • Preservation varies from full relief to convex epirelief; cavities are commonly filled.1949, Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 11. From the entry conduitlike
  • The old stumps were yet in a good state of preservation.1909, William Armistead, Reminiscences: Incidents in the Life of a Pioneer in Oregon and Idaho, page 193. From the entry pitchwood
  • In all cases of constitutional disease, plasmogen is used to bring about a proper regeneration and preservation of the blood-cells.2021, Louis Dechmann, Valere Aude: Dare To Be Healthy. From the entry plasmogen
  • "Fortunately many fossils have exquisite preservation of veins," he said.2014 September 16, University of Arizona, “News Release: Meteorite that doomed dinosaurs remade forests”, in EurekAlert, American…. From the entry grapelike
  • Recently excavated bog bodies have been intensively recorded, analyzed in great detail, and conserved for long-term preservation and museum display.2014, Matt Cardin, editor, Mummies around the World, ABC-CLIO, page 34. From the entry bog body
  • Society decrees you useless for preservation of the species.2011, Yuri Kageyama, The New and Selected Yuri: Writing From Peeling Till Now, Ishmael Reed Publishing Company/Xlibris, →ISBN, pages 107–108. From the entry obasan
  • The Greco-Latin coincidences are presumably due to the independent preservation of elements of the most ancient IE. vocabulary.1988, Leonard Robert Palmer, The Latin Language, page 21. From the entry Greco-Latin
  • Gardening is a wholesome avocation that encourages appreciation for nature and concern for the preservation and enhancement of our environment.1986 April 18, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5462. From the entry avocation
  • To define the specific preservation, maintenance and depreservation necessary to maintain FMC aircraft combat ready while in prepositioned storage.1984, United States Army Aviation Digest, page 4. From the entry depreservation
  • The grave is still cared for by the local authorities, and the monument is in an excellent state of preservation.1950 January, “Notes and News: George Bradshaw's Grave”, in Railway Magazine, page 62. From the entry care for
  • Without this form of thought-communication and preservation man would never have achieved any higher degree of cerebration than the anthropoid ape.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry anthropoid
  • There is all the difference between preservation and restoration.1921, T.S. Eliot, “The Possibility of a Poetic Drama”, in The Sacred Wood. From the entry restoration
  • SETG's work has been a labour of love on rolling stock that's far from the glamorous end of 'top link' locomotive preservation.2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3. From the entry labour of love
  • Four aspects help to distinguish medicolegally significant remains from those that are not: state of preservation, body modification, personal belongings, and conditions of interment.2016, Steven N. Byers, Introduction to Forensic Anthropology. From the entry medicolegally
  • The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.2013, Brian R. Moss, Ecology of Fresh Waters: A View for the Twenty-First Century. From the entry freshwater
  • In doing so, they suggest a way forward for a city in which preservation is all too often a form of embalmment.2009 February 20, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Boxy to Bold: A Concert Hall Busts Out”, in New York Times. From the entry embalmment
  • I'd like to call your attention to four of them: check for accessibility, markup preservation, simplified tabification and indentation, and target schema validation.2006, Dino Esposito, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 core reference. From the entry tabification
  • At the same time, taphologists need the preservation and recovery of their sacred places, something that, often, only archaeologists can properly provide.2006, Ryan M. Seidemann, “Stones and Bones: Can Taphologists and Archaeologists Happily Coexist?”, in AGS Quarterly: Bulletin of the…. From the entry taphologist
  • The preservation effect is the result of synthesis of lactic acid and heterofermentation — also, acetic acids and, some times, antimicrobial substances.2004, Y. H. Hui, Handbook of Food and Beverage Fermentation Technology, page 23. From the entry heterofermentation
  • For example, the creation of historical preservation districts or the passage of antiweed ordinances can be used to preserve a desired rural character.2003, Matthew J. Lindstrom, Hugh Bartling, Suburban sprawl: culture, theory, and politics. From the entry antiweed
  • Also, the city government’s Department of Urban Development proposed various redevelopment projects that showed concern for the preservation of traditional landscape and historical architecture.2002, Hsin-Huang Micahel Hsiao, Hwa-Jen Liu, “Collective Action toward a Sustainable City: Citizens' Movements and Environmental Politics…. From the entry revitalize
  • His interest in architecture was always strongly linked to his sense of responsibility for the care and preservation of the built environment.1995, Icon to Cartoon: A Tribute to Sixten Ringbom, page 22. From the entry neogothic
  • The tomb contained percussion, string and wind instruments in a remarkable state of preservation, including the largest assemblage of Bronze Age bells ever recovered.1994 January 18, Glen Collins, “Bells of Bronze Age Show the Complexity Of Old China's Music”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry assemblage
  • The Oriskany had been ridden hard and put away wet at the end of the Vietnam War, without an overhaul or proper preservation.1988, John F. Lehman, Command of the Seas: A Personal Story, page 174. From the entry ridden hard and put away wet
  • The Agriculture Committee considers legislation affecting farmers, agri-business, the preservation of farmlands and the availability of capital for establishing new farms and enlarging existing ones.1979 January 31, “U.S. steel earnings increased”, in Joseph I. Donnelly, editor, Indiana Evening Gazette, volume 79, number 179, Indiana…. From the entry agri-business
  • In the opinion of experts, the method of hemocatharsis used in the device is also highly promising for the preservation of organs before transplantation.1976, Trade and Industry, volume 20, page 51. From the entry hemocatharsis
  • I think this is a very fertile area for this committee, and perhaps computering it, or microfilm preservation, or things of that sort.1972 March 20, Benny L. Kass, quotee, U.S. Government Information Policies and Practices: Administration and Operation of the Freedom of…. From the entry computer
  • The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.1905, American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal, volume 29, page 42. From the entry immune
  • The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.1901, “Progress in the Fruit Industry of Queensland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, page 16. From the entry wattle
  • Fifteen years of hard work went into the property's creation, which was undertaken by a legion of architects, designers, preservation and restoration experts, engineers, consultants, and artists.2026 May, Julie Coe, “The Rest is History”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 36. From the entry work
  • Although there are some conflicting data, the majority of evidence suggests that persufflation, by enhancing oxygenation, can improve preservation and even rescue organs, including organs with prior warm ischema.2021, Giuseppe Orlando, Shaf Keshavjee, editors, Organ Repair and Regeneration: Preserving Organs in the Regenerative Medicine Era…. From the entry persufflation
  • Wood and leaves are more likely to decay but even these can have their preservation potential increased dramatically by being charcoalified by partial burning prior to burial.2010, Angela L. Coe, Geological Field Techniques, Wiley-Blackwell, page 85. From the entry charcoalify

Meaning of preservation

  1. noun The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
  2. noun The state of being preserved, how something has survived.

Full definition of preservation

Questions about preservation in a sentence

How do you use preservation in a sentence?
Preservation is used as a noun. For example: “Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.”
What is a short sentence with preservation?
“Society decrees you useless for preservation of the species.”
What does preservation mean?
Preservation means the act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.

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