How to Use remnant in a Sentence

remnant

1 of 2 noun

• Remnants go on sale next week.
• The other noticed that the remnants looked like a sausage.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• Plus, with the old remnants out of the way, new growth can come in full throttle.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• Nearby, at Guano Point, the Highpoint Hike trail leads to the remnants of a tram that once stretched 8,800 feet across the canyon.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• Yes, there was one, and remnants of it remain - but this movie is so 2000-LATE.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The remnant that remains is the tailbone, also called the coccyx.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• In the last 10 years, the remnants of three other hurricanes dumped record-breaking loads of rain on the state.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Aug. 2023
• Just looking at this place, the remnants of my work tension melt away.
  — Helene Stapinski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• The team believes that these extra spikes could be the remnants of past stellar sneezes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• There are remnants of Catholicism and the roaring ’20s in the collection.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• The remnants of such storms can move over the Southwest, bringing heavy rainfall.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• The debris could be the beginnings of a new planet, or even the remnants of one that is already formed.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
• The remnants of that retreat are still visible at the basin’s head, where a last, large chunk of ice still perches on the cliff.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Pugh looks regal in a pearl lace headpiece, while Josh Brolin stands in the fiery remnants of a bloody battle.
  — Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
• But if the padding is damp, moisture laden with remnants of that deep stain will wick to the surface as the carpet fibers dry.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• In 1983, remnants of Tulare Lake remained on the landscape for about two years, Mount said.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Yet in some ways, the streets around the Kennedy Recreation Center in Shaw remain the stubborn remnant of a bygone era.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• Putin’s front men have been blunt about wiping out any remnants of Ukraine-ness from that country.
  — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 19 Jan. 2024
• Rain from a day earlier seemed to have extinguished the last remnants of fire.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Those remnants have seemed to be enough to keep crowds flooding in during the busy summer season and on the weekends into the fall.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• Some of his supporters say the name the country is best known by globally is a remnant of the colonial era.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 9 Sep. 2023
• In Atlanta, the initiative came from remnants of Covid-19.
  — Brammhi Balarajan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
• The only remnant of the camp is the fire hydrant located between the baseball and softball fields.
  — Jordyn Harrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• When he was found, the child reportedly asked for food and water and had remnants of duct tape on his hands and ankles.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
• Some of them were well-preserved and still sealed in their original state, containing the remnants of 5,000-year-old wine.
  — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 15 Oct. 2023
• Entire families sat on the sidewalk, coated in thick gray dust, the essence of concrete and steel, remnants of their city.
  — Zeynep Karatas, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2023
• In 2021, rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida overloaded the system.
  — Jim Morrison, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• Now, 40 years later, the remnants of the surgical scar are still palpable on the inside of his lower lip.
  — Casey Schwartz, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• White smoke and an orange glow could still be seen above the remnants of the building Tuesday morning in Clinton Township.
  — arkansasonline.com, 6 Mar. 2024
• The landfill was finally shuttered in 2001; the last materials dumped there were the remnants of the Twin Towers.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024

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remnant

2 of 2 adjective

• Remnant herds of that species were wiped out in the 19th century by the spread of firearms in the region.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• The remnant material mounts, swaying in the breeze and rotting in the sun.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Jan. 2022
• The nylon and polyester tote is made from factory remnant scraps and folds down to the size of a Jetboil stove.
  — Melissa McGibbon, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• Theta, the 29th, was far out in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and became a remnant low Sunday.
  — Fox News, 16 Nov. 2020
• Any remnant frontal clouds should get out of here as a northwest wind kicks up around 10 to 20 mph, with higher gusts.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2017
• The storm was expected to fade into a remnant low by Thursday.
  — Robin Webb, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• While it was believed to have gone extinct by 1940, a small remnant population of the plant held on.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 Sep. 2019
• That thin remnant slice was all that remained of what once had been a sea probably thousands of miles wide.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• The estimated 6,000 that live in the state today are believed to have come from a single remnant herd.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June 2021
• Genevieve will continue to weaken over the next few days and should become a remnant low this weekend.
  — Star Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Lisa wasn’t able to re-strengthen and became a remnant low on Saturday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 5 Nov. 2022
• Vicky is expected to weaken over the next few days, becoming a remnant low in about 36-48 hours.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 15 Sep. 2020
• To merge as quickly as their remnant cores did, the stars needed to share envelopes several times.
  — WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
• Any remnant clouds are out of here pretty early, leaving us mainly sunny most of the day.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
• But the idea that these New England sites were ancient remnant forest flew in the face of orthodox thinking.
  — Jonny Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2022
• Next, stand back and watch as the cloud’s remnant angular momentum spins and flattens the leftovers into a whirling disk around the star.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2020
• Even today, remnant shells can still be found in places along the Wabash River and other waterways.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 5 Sep. 2023
• It is not expected to become stronger than a depression and could weaken to a remnant low by the first of next week, if not sooner.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 2 Nov. 2022
• Paulette is expected to weaken to a remnant low within the next day or two, forecasters said.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 22 Sep. 2020
• The system could become a remnant low or degenerate into a trough by the middle of next week.
  — Hannah Leyva, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• Leopards are an endangered species, and are found in the wild across remnant patches of western China.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 10 May 2021
• Thereafter, the storm’s remnant spin could meander across Mexico and emerge in the gulf, somewhere in the Bay of Campeche, toward the mid- or latter portions of this week.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
• Forecasters said Gert had weakened to a remnant low as of Tuesday morning.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Aug. 2023
• It is forecast to become a remnant low by Thursday night or Friday morning.
  — Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• Orbiters around Mars have mapped these remnant magnetic signatures in rocks on the surface of Mars.
  — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 20 Dec. 2022
• Once a tropical storm, Rene was forecast to become a remnant low Monday.
  — Tamara Lush, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2020
• The hurricane center expects Arlene to weaken to a remnant low tonight.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 3 June 2023
• Medium Dry air tries to wedge in from our west on Tuesday, pushing the remnant circulation from Ian further east.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• Sally is forecast to weaken more and become a remnant low tonight or early Friday.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 17 Sep. 2020
• The magnetic mosaic comes from volcanic rocks at the surface that carry traces of Mars’s remnant magnetic field.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023

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