How to Use salutary in a Sentence

salutary

adjective
  • 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
  • This time, the three filmmakers had in mind something more salutary.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • But this would have the salutary effect of compelling colleges to reduce prices.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Yet amid the horror, occasional salutary gleams of light may be glimpsed.
    — Patrick McGrath, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • There’s much less deep-frying and more salutary steaming and grilling in Skillets’ kitchen.
    — Andrew Marton, star-telegram.com, 5 July 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
  • On this score all Americans should welcome our new era of salutary reform.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • This new freedom of tone is salutary and reveals the dynamism of Arab societies.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • This sea change is more important than the infrastructure deal itself, salutary as that is.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
  • For others, Richey’s fixation on death and loss was not a salutary example.
    — Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Whether or not the Hungarian leader has done so, the effect has hardly been salutary.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Prime Minister Sunak may end up speeding up a natural and salutary process.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
  • To that end, the ever-gracious Greene always made a point of connecting people, but more in a salutary way than a pushy way.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps there’s something salutary about being thrown off-balance, the novel suggests.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The court case certainly had a salutary effect on de Havilland’s own career.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The deep flavors of the warming, salutary dish belie its simple ingredient list.
    — Joshua David Stein, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • This expansion of the news ecosystem is having a salutary effect on a profession in doldrums.
    — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2019
  • 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
  • Medical professionals of the time noted that sunshine and fresh air seemed to have salutary effects.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Small gestures now by Syria could have a disproportionate salutary effect in the long term.
    — David W. Lesch, CNN, 12 June 2021
  • Yet a president bent on destroying this salutary system — with enough enablers to see the plan through — would have nearly limitless tools to do so.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 13 June 2024
  • But the old view of bilirubin as molecular trash is still holding back research on how to take advantage of its salutary effects, Stec says.
    — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 June 2023
  • 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

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