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How to use restorative in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective, noun

Restorative means serving to restore. Example: “After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.”

Examples of restorative by meaning

adjectiveServing to restore.

  • After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
  • Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.2017 February 17, Dana Santas, “Recovering from surgery or stress? Yoga can help”, in CNN
  • Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71

nounSomething with restoring properties.

  • For Louis XIV's advancing age, a drink consisting of sugar, distilled spirits, and orange water was recommended as a restorative of vigor.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 211

nounAn alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.

  • Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

More sentences with restorative

  • Some of the pottery is so smashed that it's not feasible even to do a restorative repair.From the entry smashed
  • We are a therapeutic support cosmetology school with a restorative aspect."2023 July 19, Wendy Wright, quoting Julie Chapus, “Rochester woman helping trafficking survivors start over with cosmetology”, in Spectrum…. From the entry cos
  • Additionally, the more subgingival the restorative margin, the more tooth is reduced.2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry, page 13. From the entry additionally
  • Love alone provides us with the much needed restorative properties of redemption.2011, William Peters, Good Morning my Beloved Family, page 31. From the entry drunken
  • Do you do crown and bridge and restorative dentistry?2022 August 19, Louis Malcmacher, “Learn something new: Incorporating Botox and dermal fillers into your practice”, in Dental Economics. From the entry endo
  • The creation of this awareness is, of course, only half the function of the drunkalogue; the other half is restorative.1985, Loy D. Martin, Browning's dramatic monologues and the post-romantic subject. From the entry drunkalogue
  • In Turkey, Iran, and Syria salep is popular as a restorative and also as a provocative to amatory activity.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213. From the entry provocative
  • Restorative yoga includes the use of props to put your body into positions where you can reach a state of total comfort, tranquility, and nonexertion.2015, Jena la Flamme, Pleasurable Weight Loss. From the entry nonexertion
  • In one of a number of fairy tale-like details, the doctor at the nursing home in Nice puts Zoe's mother into a deep restorative sleep.2001 February 3, Helen Stevenson, “Small comforts”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry fairy tale-like
  • Cutting complementation and hollow-grinding permitted by these rotary instruments can contribute significantly to successful restorative procedures by avoiding the mispreparation of teeth leading to misrestorations.1972, Quintessence International, Dental Digest, page 44. From the entry misrestoration
  • Two seasoned teachers, Ms Fong and Mdm Wong, shared their experience of the Builders Project and the progression of restorative practices in their school leading to effective student engagement.2025 April 29, Seow-Ling Kek, James Lim, Tyler Sim, Enci Li, Justin Mui, Relationships, Community, and the Restorative School, Taylor &…. From the entry MDM
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of different pH solutions on the solubility and wear resistance of Silorane and dimethacrylate resin based composite restorative materials.2015, Tarek A Soliman et al., “In Vitro Solubility and Wear Rates of Silorane and Dimethacrylate Resin Based Composite Restorative…. From the entry dimethacrylate
  • Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.1974, Norah Lofts, Crown of aloes. From the entry winesop

Meaning of restorative

  1. adjective Serving to restore.
  2. noun Something with restoring properties.
  3. noun An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.

Full definition of restorative

Questions about restorative in a sentence

How do you use restorative in a sentence?
Restorative is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.”
What is a short sentence with restorative?
“Do you do crown and bridge and restorative dentistry?”
What does restorative mean?
Restorative means serving to restore.

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