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• Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.From the entry case
• The Crab Nebula is the most studied supernova remnant.From the entry supernova remnant
• Chiku Lagoon (七股潟湖) is the largest remnant waterbody of the inland sea.2020 December 18, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Disappeared sea and a side trip to hell”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry waterbody
• A remarkable paleoseep remnant is located in the Chiahsien District, southeastern Taiwan.2018 August, Chih-Wei Chien et al., “Calcareous and agglutinated foraminifera ratio: Chemical interface tracer for Pliocene Chiahsien…. From the entry Chiahsien
• Shiprock is the remnants of a volcano that erupted more than 30 million years ago.2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN. From the entry Shiprock
• The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave.2014, Orrin H. Pilkey, Tracy Monegan Rice, William J. Neal, How to Read a North Carolina Beach. From the entry swash
• There are remnants of a stonewall at the elm tree on Burrough Road.2012, Walter G. Robillard, Clark on Surveying and Boundaries: 2012 Cumulative Supplement, 7th edition, Charlottesville, Va.: LexisNexis…. From the entry stonewall
• It is possibly a remnant protoplanet prevented from forming into anything bigger by gravitational disturbances from Xerceo.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tyrix. From the entry protoplanet
• Only rarely does the vascular supply of a vestigial organ disappear while external remnants are still present.2004, Pooja, “Flower” (chapter 1), in Pshysiology of the Angiosperms, New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, Vestigial Vascular…. From the entry vestigial
• “Oh yes, that's Centauran vegetation—a remnant of the original ecology,” the aide told him.1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars, Open Road, published 2014, unnumbered page. From the entry Centauran
• REMNANTS & ODDMENTS in carpeting, linoleum, curtaining, furniture, wool, haberdashery, china, enamelledware, plasticware, etc.1959 April 23, Evening Sentinel, number 29,437, page 9. From the entry enamelledware
• Only a miserable remnant of the oyster's progeny arrives at the stage of adult oysterhood.1934, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection, volume 2482, page 64. From the entry oysterhood
• We are the remnants of the Iron Youth so laudated by the Germans.1932, Arthur W[illiam] Upfield, A Royal Abduction, Exile Bay: ETT Imprint, published 2020, →ISBN. From the entry laudate
• They are the last remnant of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany.1917, John Harden Allen, Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright, page 291. From the entry Kimry
• Bart’s few economies to consume in private the expensive remnants of her hospitality.1905, Edith Wharton, chapter 3, in The House of Mirth, book 1. From the entry chaufroix
• An archaeological dig on southern Vancouver Island has uncovered remnants from an ancient W̱SÁNEĆ (wh-say-nutch) village, dating back centuries.2023 July 29, Courtney Dickson, “Archaeological dig uncovers remnants of W̱SÁNEĆ village dating back more than 1,000 years”, in CBC News. From the entry W̱SÁNEĆ
• During the ensuing conflict the original timeline was restored, but some Tick-Tocks survived, remnants of a time that time itself forgot.2012, Andy Gavin, Untimed, Pacific Palisades, C.A.: Mascherato Publishing, →ISBN, page 255. From the entry time forgot
• It’s about collecting fabrics and remnants, carpets and scarves, and draping them on your walls, lamps, beds, floor, and yourself.2012, Sibella Court, Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style, Chronicle Books, page 196. From the entry gypset
• It's only when you remove all remnants of the guy from your life that you can move on.2011, Willie Booker, Life’s Too Short to Date Men Like Me, iUniverse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry crying game
• Marekanites are often found as embedded remnants within perlite.2010, M. Steven Shackley, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry marekanite
• The Jhongshan district is full of nightclubs and Karoake bars and has remnants of Japanese forms of entertainment.[2008, Nick French, Asian Ways: A Westerner's Guide to Asian Business Etiquette, Aardvark Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry Zhongshan
• The origin of the janëu has not been explained as yet; many believe it to be the remnant of a garment.2007, Klaus K. Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism, 3rd edition, page 150. From the entry janeu
• This remnant of modernism is perhaps the most cathectic concern and source of the sometimes intense criticism of zoos.2006, Stephen Spotte, Zoos in Postmodernism, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 143. From the entry cathectic
• The induction generator can self-excite using the external capacitor only if the rotor has an adequate remnant magnetic field.2005, Mukund R. Patel, Wind and Solar Power Systems, page 98. From the entry self-excite
• After the accident, severely worn and sheared remnants of the acme nut threads were recovered wrapped around the acme screw.2002 December 30, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.2.2.1 Cause of the Jam”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Loss of Control and…. From the entry jackscrew
• These points represent a remnant of the badong or backwing.1991, Peter Buurman, Wayang golek: the entrancing world of classical West Javanese puppet theatre. From the entry backwing
• Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger.1990 July 16, David Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time. From the entry libertinism
• They made these things for almost nothing, cutting them out of remnants they scrambled for in backstreet fabric outlets.1989, Carol Shields, “Times of Sickness and Health”, in The Collected Stories, Random House Canada, published 2004, page 349. From the entry backstreet
• Remnant exemplars of the coelacanth, the tuatara, the Joshua tree are anachronisms more at home in previous than present environments.1985, David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry hoary
• This bulla is assumed to be a remnant of the larval eye; in the Simuliidae it is called a stemmatic bulla.1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry stemmatic
• No cuticle is present between the macrosclereids of the funicular remnant (see Funicular Remnant, below) and those of the hilum testa.1967, Robert Harold Miller, Crotalaria Seed Morphology, Anatomy, and Identification, page 41. From the entry macrosclereid
• The remnants of the Grenadiers held Mt.1956, Francis Albert Eley Crew, “The Defence and Fall of Hong Kong December 7-25, 1941”, in The Army Medical Services: Campaigns, volume…. From the entry Leighton Hill
• You could join Wiscard’s remnants in the Red Stars.1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), Part V: “The Merchant Princes”, Ch.10, pp.157–158. From the entry rapine
• "It's a beautiful smoker," he assured the curate, but the curate had still a saving remnant of caution left him.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 27. From the entry smoker
• The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry waterlogged
• They were undoubtedly the dwindling remnants of a pithecanthropoid species; they had enough intelligence to emulate their long-dead masters in working in gold.2014, Philip Jose Farmer, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke, →ISBN. From the entry pithecanthropoid

Meaning of remnant

1. noun A small portion remaining of a larger thing or group; part of a former whole.
2. noun The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
3. noun An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

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How do you use remnant in a sentence?

Remnant is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The remnants of the Neanderthal race mixed with members of Homo sapiens.”

What is a short sentence with remnant?

“The remnants of the Grenadiers held Mt.”

What does remnant mean?

Remnant means a small portion remaining of a larger thing or group; part of a former whole.