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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Perry’s Deli has given up its last vestige at the Bacci Pizzeria in the Loop.
    Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But vestiges of its former glory can be seen, inside and out.
    Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The Philippine forces are stationed atop a rusting ship that has been grounded there since 1999 and now serves as a vestige of Manila’s claim to the area.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a vestige of our furry mammalian ancestors, which puffed out their hair to trap heat closer to the skin.
    Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The low prices of the winter months, says Elliman agent Jessica Levine, are a vestige.
    Noah Kirsch, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Once the rebellious mark of sailors and bikers, tattoos long ago shed any vestige of being a fringe art form.
    New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • Only in the book’s final pages does Odle extinguish the last vestiges of humor.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Its 14 wooded acres are peppered with tall, skinny pines and vestiges of its past life: a creaky seesaw here, a tetherball pole there.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2024
  • For anyone who owned a Sega Dreamcast or spent their youth at the turn of millennium in the last vestiges of the arcade scene, those seven words are unforgettable.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2024

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