Sample Sentences for
savor
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    She savored every minute of the trip.
    savored = took great pleasure from
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    I watch the officer closely as I slowly eat my cookies. I savor them as long as I can. I don't know when I will be eating again.  (source)
    savor = relish (take great pleasure from)
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    Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.  (source)
    savor = to relish (take great pleasure from)
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    One June evening, when the orchards were pink blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window.  (source)
    savor = pleasure
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    I take my time going uphill, savoring the feel of grass on my knuckles.  (source)
    savoring = taking great pleasure from
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    Judge Taylor savored his Sunday night hour alone in his big house, and churchtime found him holed up in his study reading the writings of Bob Taylor (no kin, but the judge would have been proud to claim it).  (source)
    savored = took great pleasure from
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    She leaned back on her chair, beaming, as if remembering something savory.  (source)
    savory = flavorful in a delightful way
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    I cannot sleep and my food has no savour and my eyes are darkened because of her beauty.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it savor.
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    When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use savory.
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    He pronounced the word with care, savouring it.†  (source)
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    Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.†  (source)
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    The crowd this time said nothing: the story certainly savoured of the supernatural, and though the Republic had abolished God, it had not quite succeeded in killing the fear of the supernatural in the hearts of the people.†  (source)
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    When she's alone, she savors her apartment of high ceilings and windows that let in the sky, the new carpeting and walls white as typing paper, the walk-in pantry with empty shelves, her bedroom without a door, her office with its typewriter, and the big front-room windows with their view of a street, rooftops, trees, and the dizzy traffic of the Kennedy Expressway.  (source)
    savors = takes great pleasure from
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