How to Use salutary in a Sentence

salutary

adjective
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  • The accident should be a salutary lesson to be more careful.
  • The consequences for our civic life are not likely to be salutary.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
  • But his plan left an enduring, and salutary, mark on it.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
  • All in all, the saga has provided us with a salutary reminder of the dangers of short-term thinking.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 May 2021
  • This time, the three filmmakers had in mind something more salutary.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • There’s much less deep-frying and more salutary steaming and grilling in Skillets’ kitchen.
    — Andrew Marton, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
  • But this would have the salutary effect of compelling colleges to reduce prices.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The Cassedys felt the scenic environment and a curriculum that embraced the arts would have a salutary effect on the girls.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Research has been piling up since the 1970s on the many salutary effects of spending time in nature.
    — Sadie Dingfelder, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The spirit of President Calvin Coolidge would be salutary.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Will Boston be able to benefit from the salutary aspects of this new form of bike rental — and avoid the negatives?
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • An awareness of historical mistakes is salutary, but the task is to help put things right in the future.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • This new freedom of tone is salutary and reveals the dynamism of Arab societies.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • One salutary thing: Liberals are fighting in a way we haven’t seen in our lifetime.
    — Michael Tomasky, New Republic, 30 May 2017
  • But if the presence — or absence — of Trump diminishes some of the glittery crap, that’s salutary.
    — The Hive, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Yet amid the horror, occasional salutary gleams of light may be glimpsed.
    — Patrick McGrath, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • That ought to be a salutary lesson for those institutions who think that backing hedge funds is the answer to their prayers.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Of course, there might be less salutary effects as well, and the CAP proposal leaves a number of questions unanswered.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
  • Yet for some of us, the Palestinian revolt has had the salutary effect of making Israel more visible through the mists of wish and dream.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But if the Saudis were hoping for a quick win, their first football match in Iraq for nearly 40 years offers a salutary reminder.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • What is not salutary is the Reid precedent of changing the old norm using something so transient and capricious as the majority of the day.
    — Charles Krauthammer, Orange County Register, 4 Feb. 2017
  • On this score all Americans should welcome our new era of salutary reform.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • Whether or not the Hungarian leader has done so, the effect has hardly been salutary.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Although her boat was hard to maneuver, the simple fact of moving forward had a salutary effect on her mood.
    — Luc-Christophe Guillerm, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But like many expedient acts, Newsom’s promise proved less salutary with time and more like a set of handcuffs.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • For others, Richey’s fixation on death and loss was not a salutary example.
    — Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • The sweetness comes from honey, which is primarily used to feed the yeast, but has the salutary secondary effect of making the bread taste just a little honeyed.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 31 July 2020
  • This sea change is more important than the infrastructure deal itself, salutary as that is.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • But her Celebration Tour stop certainly lived up to that salutary name, celebrating Madonna’s four-decade body of work and its culture-shaking impact.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024
  • According to the school, the experiment has had a salutary effect both on student classroom productivity and on campus social life.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2024

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