How to Use vestige in a Sentence
vestige
noun-
As of a few weeks ago, Morales was among the last vestiges of the Pink Tide.
— Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019 -
The 11th Street route in Michigan City is the last vestige of that era.
— Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2021 -
That doesn’t mean that aren’t still vestiges of that past.
— Greg Engle, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 -
The journey is one of the last vestiges of a nomadic past.
— Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023 -
But as a vestige of that shameful era, the noose lives on.
— Alaa Elassar, CNN, 23 June 2020 -
The last vestiges of the league’s superteam era have vanished.
— Jerry Brewer, Washington Post, 4 July 2024 -
The demise of the news conference also erased the last vestiges of the reform era.
— Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 -
The last vestiges of lazy days, one last look over the shoulder at what the summer offered.
— Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2019 -
Like much of Twitter’s rebranding to X, there are still a lot of vestiges of the old brand on the page.
— Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2023 -
There is the lingering vestige of the need for facetime in the office.
— Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 May 2021 -
This is the last vestige of a culture war that raged throughout the 60s and into the Reagan years.
— Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018 -
That word was a vestige of a hateful Jim Crow era that most Americans agreed to leave in the past.
— John Blake, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022 -
The crowd was a heady mix of colleagues, clients and friends who ran the gamut from fresh-faced décor up and comers to the last vestiges of the Swifty’s set.
— Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 23 Jan. 2019 -
Opponents labeled the plan a vestige of the Nazi era and took to the streets in numerous cities.
— Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 21 Jan. 2024 -
The guys help Wesley make peace with his past and shed the last vestiges of his old self with confidence.
— Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 10 July 2019 -
Whom is one of the few remaining vestiges of case in English.
— The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018 -
And a vestige, too, of an era when adultness was a bit more defined and refined.
— Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023 -
But for all his success, Rivera was a vestige of when Jerry Richardson owned the team.
— Ken Belson, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019 -
The dreaded toilet-side telephone, a vestige of the pre-cellphone world, was still in place.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021 -
In one week, the last vestiges of that order are upended.
— Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023 -
Think of the recording sessions for Bruce Springsteen’s new album as a proud vestige of the pre-Zoom era.
— Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2020 -
The convertible was the sole vestige of Berry’s mother that stayed in the family — but that was short-lived.
— Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021 -
The taqueria, still known as La Xalapeña, is a vestige of La Jalapeña’s once glorious presence in the city.
— Alan Chazaro, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022 -
The vestige of this ceiling carries over even after it’s all done.
— Nate Sloan, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2021 -
That sea ice north of Greenland among the last vestiges of old, thick sea ice existing in the Arctic ocean.
— Anna Beahm, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018 -
Their lawyer, Victor Glasberg, said the requirement was a vestige of the state’s Jim Crow era.
— USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2019 -
The wind ripped steady and strong, whipping up sand, a stinging reminder of the recent storm that had blown through, this wreck a vestige of it.
— David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020 -
On the other, a sister will go to any lengths to hold onto the sole vestige of the family’s heritage.
— Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Perry’s Deli has given up its last vestige at the Bacci Pizzeria in the Loop.
— Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022 -
But the hotel cleverly embraced the vestiges of its former life for a one-of-a-kind experience.
— Forbes Travel Guide, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
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