How to Use relic in a Sentence

relic

noun
  • The two components present in Cannes are the relics of that great project.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • And the relics of the city are still there: the grid system, road system, the old houses, the churches.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The first craft/relic event was a lot busier than I was used to, a much larger scale.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
  • First, there’s the marble lectern—a relic of a Catholic church—which still serves as the host stand.
    Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 31 July 2023
  • The relics will be displayed on a table in the center aisle near the altar.
    Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • And unlike most other relics from the past, they can all be made to breathe and run and live again.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2023
  • But these relics are now at risk as the city continues to grow.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • The wide-leg baby-blue pants feel like both a relic from early-’90s L.A. and an omen from the L.A. of the future.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • Hera makes a call from an ancient relic from years past — a pay phone! — to a child of hers.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
  • This relic is one of the few for which Surak has something like a chain-of-custody record.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • There were World War II relics such as medic bags, a field telephone and helmets.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The flag was described by the Lexington as the relic of a kamikaze pilot.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the cast-off relics are products of the information age.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Five years on, and what a five years, the show feels yet more like a relic from a previous era.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
  • There must be more to these angsty little etiquette relics.
    Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2023
  • This image, like game rentals as a whole, is now a relic of a bygone era.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Two of the burial mounds had been looted, but one contained the ancient relics.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2024
  • The show is a relic, as cheaply gilded as the gaudy statues the HFPA hands out.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Like this moment has become one of their [Leah fans] holy relics of a fandom, right?
    Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
  • But they are presumed to be a relic of a time, more than 8,000 years ago, when the land was covered in water.
    Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Each relic box contained three relics from saints from over 1500 years ago.
    Emma Tucker, CNN, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, the truth is that rather than being a useless relic, the core work of the humanities is the cure for what ails us.
    Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • And isn’t that an older woman who is, like, an old relic?
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
  • One way to look at this 2005 letter is as a relic of a very different time.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The structures are a relic of a past era of prosperity for the small boomtown.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Early relic hunters scavenged the area for bits of Skylab.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Because the Casino and Old Tom Gin complete each other, two dusty old relics brushed off and teamed up to make one hell of a drink.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Inside was a relic and a challenge — the bones of an old ship, barely visible in the dim light.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023
  • That’s kind of a relic of another time that no longer exists.
    Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The Harpole Treasure refers to a collection of relics that was discovered in Harpole near Northampton in 2022.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 3 Oct. 2024

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