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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