Salvage
to salvage (verb) - to manage to get something useful from a difficult situation or a damaged object (such as a ship that has sunk or a building that has been damaged)
Example sentences:
* Administration officials tried to salvage the hopeless situation but their defeat in the upcoming elections seemed imminent.
* After the scandal, Clarisse was lucky to have a chance to salvage her career.
* The diving team first had to decide on what equipment to salvage from the sunken ship.
* The salvage operation penetrated behind enemy lines despite great risk to life and limb.
* Diplomats were still hoping to salvage something from the failed talks.
* The flight recorders from the ill-fated plane were salvaged from the wreckage.
* The salvage operation continued and the wreckage was finally recovered.
* The old ship was finally released for salvage by the Navy fifty years after was commissioned for action.
* Experts will be appointed in an attempt to salvage something from the country's sinking economy.
* I managed to find the automobile part I needed to repair my very old car in the salvage yard.
* The football team had lost so many games it was not able to salvage their season.
* Even though he managed to defend himself against the charges, he could not salvage his reputation.
* They used a blow torch on the frame of the burnt-out truck to salvage pieces of twisted scrap metal.
