Sentence examples for things preserved from inspiring English sources

Peat bogs are a favourite here though most things preserved in them are, although ancient, not fossils.

"Only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real," goes a line in the epigraph to James Salter's new novel.

Supplying his own epigraph, Salter opens the novel with this note: "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real".

In the gloom of the Baltic gallery, there are things preserved under glass: odds and ends in an upturned beret; a cabinet whose opened drawers are filled with stones; a plastic American breakfast (plastic fried eggs, plastic bacon); phials of liquid; stacks of money.

And they both seem to take credit for the same things: preserving Social Security, lowering the price of prescription drugs, helping ranchers, saving children from mediocre schools.

Auction houses say that the bidding practice is harmless, fully disclosed and widely understood by collectors, and that it protects the seller by, among other things, preserving the drama that draws buyers to a sale.

The campus of Sherman Indian High School (1901), one of the many boarding schools operated by the U.S. government to encourage the assimilation of American Indians, includes one original building housing a museum that, among other things, preserves the school's records.

A breakthrough for, among other things, preserving the world's forests.

But we long ago turned the Pacific into an "American lake," and we've expended lives and money in the Middle East to, among other things, preserve access to the energy we need for our economy.

Michelle Gauthier, of Mulberry & Vine, told me that such a system would, for one thing, preserve little of what drew her to the restaurant industry in the first place.

When it comes to baseball cards, it turns out, the only thing preserving a competitive, free market is a labor union.