How to use "preserve" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "preserve" in popular movie and book plots

  • When they agreed, Covington was built in the middle of a wildlife preserve purchased with Edward's family fortune.  - The Village (2004 film)
  • To preserve air, most passengers enter a chemically induced sleep, with only Pat Harris and physicist Duncan McKenzie staying awake.  - A Fall of Moondust
  • Dundas has provisions to repair the ship and pepper for Maturin to preserve his specimens from moths.  - The Wine-Dark Sea
  • Seeing Charles and James there arguing, John waited till James left, and then killed Charles to preserve his freedom and spare his daughter.  - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
  • Wiley has taken Kara Lynn to Osprey Island, a small nature preserve in the middle of Biscayne Bay.  - Tourist Season (novel)
  • To preserve appearances, Henchard sets Susan up in a nearby house, pretends to court her, and remarries her.  - The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Stopping at a roadside restaurant, he packs the sack containing the head with ice to preserve it for the journey home.  - Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
  • The act consists of discussions between the traders and Sanhedrin, who agree that Jesus must be arrested to preserve Mosaic law.  - Oberammergau Passion Play
  • Johnny, upon seeing them together in a discussion, demands that Stephanie quit the Pink Ladies to preserve his honor ("rep", reputation).  - Grease 2
  • The Hillcrists make every effort they can to preserve the last large piece of open land that adjoins their beautiful rural estate.  - The Skin Game (1931 film)
  • They are determined to collect and preserve for a new civilization all the great books of western culture.  - A Gift Upon the Shore
  • Central Florida itself was hit heavily with neutron and chemical weapons, in order to destroy the life there and preserve the technology.  - Fountain of Dreams
  • He tells his daughter Promethea to flee into the desert, hoping the gods of the ancient world will preserve her.  - Promethea
  • Bick is determined to preserve his family legacy, however, and refuses.  - Giant (1956 film)
  • It was hoped that, overlooked by the violent, Shangri-la would preserve them and reveal them later to a receptive world exhausted by war.  - Lost Horizon
  • Five years later, Shiragami has returned to Japan and merged some of Erika's cells with those of a rose in an attempt to preserve her soul.  - Godzilla vs. Biollante

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