How to Use relic in a Sentence

relic

noun

• The dress is not the first relic from the movie to go missing.
  — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
• The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
• 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
• An early 2010s shot of Frank Ocean that feels like a relic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Light switches, doorbells and curtain rods may soon be domestic relics of a bygone era.
  — Alexandria Abramian, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024