How to Use conserve in a Sentence
- Don't run around too much—you need to conserve your strength.
- We need to conserve our natural resources.
- With so little rain, everyone had to conserve water.
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No board can vote to pause the program to conserve cash.
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Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Mulch the root zone to conserve soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
26 Aug. 2025
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Mulch the root zone to conserve soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
25 Nov. 2025
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Mulch the root zone to conserve soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
19 Feb. 2026
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Mulch the root zone to conserve soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2026
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But the debate over whether to conserve or kill them goes back decades.
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Diana Durán,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2023
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Mulch around plants to conserve moisture.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
25 June 2026
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The idea was put in place to conserve fuel and keep things standard.
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Cnn.com Wire Service,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2024
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Its school district has moved to a four-day week to conserve water.
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Shannon Najmabadi,
WSJ,
14 Nov. 2023
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Shade protects plants from the hot sun and helps conserve soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2026
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Mulching well will also keep roots warm or cool and conserve ground moisture.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
21 Apr. 2026
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There’s a lot of energy in people to try to conserve and help them.
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Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
2 May 2026
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But there is a way to do so while conserving energy.
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Rae Ford,
Martha Stewart,
13 Jan. 2026
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Your language model would clam up from time to time to conserve its resources.
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Amanda Gefter,
Quanta Magazine,
10 Apr. 2026
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In times of drought, roses stop blooming as a way to conserve moisture.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 June 2026
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Rather than pour more of yourself out, try to conserve your energy.
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Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
2 Mar. 2026
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Mulch helps conserve soil moisture, but improper use can dry out soil.
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Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
20 May 2026
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Taller grass stands shade the soil, which helps conserve limited soil moisture.
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Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
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Add organic mulch such as leaf mold, pine straw, or wood chips to help conserve soil moisture.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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There are ones that help save cats and dogs or conserve rainforests, among a bunch of other great causes.
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Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
7 Dec. 2023
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Customers were urged to conserve water.
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Jennifer Borrasso,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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To conserve, after all, is the essence of conservatism.
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Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Birds are able to conserve energy by not having to fly around looking for a safe place.
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Lauren David,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Apr. 2026
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There are a lot of protections in place to conserve this national park.
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Lauren David,
Southern Living,
18 Apr. 2026
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These are public lands and waters set aside to conserve animals and plants.
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Robin Westen,
Parents,
21 May 2026
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Basil shades the ground around tomatoes, conserving soil moisture.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
27 Feb. 2026
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Spinach seedlings pop up a little more quickly than carrots and help conserve soil moisture.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Mar. 2026
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The benefit of this method is that the thick mulch conserves soil moisture and smothers weeds.
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Doug Hall,
Good Housekeeping,
21 May 2020
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Boil water notices and conserve pleas are still in effect in multiple cities.
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Dallas News,
19 Feb. 2021
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Doing so conserves resources (those not wasted on people who are not likely to respond or be in need of help).
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Austin Frakt,
New York Times,
28 May 2018
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Purple beets are a positive bummer, leaden slabs squirted with oily olive puree and huckleberry conserves without any dairy or acid to cut through the dense, beety fog.
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Mike Sula,
Chicago Reader,
13 Dec. 2017
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Other preserves had to be labeled as jam, despite the fact that in some European countries, the name marmalade is applied to all fruit conserves.
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ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Encouraging more people to use public transit is widely seen as a way to reduce freeway traffic, conserve fuel, and lessen air pollution.
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 June 2021
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Lebo helpfully educates readers on the differences between, for example, a jelly, a jam, a preserve, and a conserve.
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Molly Young,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2021
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Exactly what is the scientific foundation for the company’s claims that dredging the lake will fix its ecology and conserve water, however, is anybody’s guess.
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Brian Maffly,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
19 Jan. 2022
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Mulch conserves moisture, improves water retention, suppresses weed growth, insulates and protects rose roots and enriches the soil with organic matter.
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Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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These include measures to promote renewable energy development, conserve water, and manage natural and working lands more sustainably.
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Brandi McKuin,
The Conversation,
3 May 2021
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In the 21st century, progressive design conserves financial and natural resources and honors its physical and cultural context.
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Los Angeles Times,
30 Aug. 2019
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Visitors will learn about the diversity of California’s native flora and how its use in urban landscapes reduces pesticides, conserves water and transforms spaces into thriving habitats.
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La Cañada Valley Sun,
1 Oct. 2019
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This model is how our society values, restores, and conserves wildlife through noncommercial, legitimate hunting activities and scientific game management.
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Anchorage Daily News,
6 Aug. 2019
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As extreme heat bears down on much of California, including parts of the Bay Area, the state’s power grid operator asked residents to voluntary conserve energy Friday to lessen the risk of outages.
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Dominic Fracassa,
San Francisco Chronicle,
9 July 2021
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His family had been manufacturing conserves since 1885 but with regular, unremarkable, dreadfully ordinary berries.
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Zahra Pettican,
Bon Appetit,
25 Apr. 2018
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According to xeriscaping guidance from Salt Lake City officials, incorporating native species can increase the biodiversity of your garden, conserve water, improve soil health and lessen the need for fertilizer and pesticides.
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Caroleine James,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
1 Aug. 2021
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