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• Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative.From the entry antimonarchical
• They rooted out all vestiges of corruption.From the entry root out
• She wondered if that was a vestige of Old English hanging on in these isolated mountain towns.2008, Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer, →ISBN. From the entry twiced
• Jugs 9-10 and 15 are obviously the last vestiges of earlier duochrome ware.1931, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization - Issues 13-17, page 8. From the entry duochrome
• His face looked like worn leather but retained the vestiges of an earlier handsomeness that reminded her of a Hollywood star.2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 173. From the entry handsomeness
• As used today, channeling is a vestige of New Age jargon that has taken on a general, nonspiritual, unpsychic meaning.2009 September 6, William Safire, “Channeling”, in New York Times. From the entry unpsychic
• It’s the call of the junkman from his horse-drawn cart, a vestige of British culture in the pre-electronic days.2007 June 18, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times. From the entry junkman
• Maybe it was a vestige of our arboreal past; we wanted to climb up and out of danger.2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Book 3, p. 239. From the entry arboreal
• The evening was clear and the last vestiges of sunset were still rose-tinting streamers of cirrus across the sky.1994, Norman Harrison, The Three Men of Gragareth, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry rose-tint
• Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick. From the entry irregular
• Only where churchmen congregated or rulers established their emporia—licensed depots for the long-distance trade in luxuries—did any vestiges of urban life survive.2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2008…. From the entry emporium
• The oldest vestiges of continental crust, which date from the Archaean aeon about 4 billion years ago, are in Acasta in north-west Canada.2006 March 25, NewScientist, page 12/1. From the entry archaean
• Visible most obviously in the Metaphysical poets, analogism finds in humankind and all creation "the vestiges and signature of their creator" ( 61 ) .1999, Christianity & literature - Volume 49, page 260. From the entry analogism
• Unless we begin to implement the necessary measures for reform now, we will celebrate that anniversary while our Constitution still bears the vestiges of colonialisation and imperial domination.2020 December 7, “Lloyd Barnett”, in Jamaica Gleaner. From the entry colonialisation
• As vestiges of feudal superstition, ancestral tablets were not considered objects for a public audience during the Maoist era and were hidden from view in carpentered cabinets.2018, James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke, To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World, page 206. From the entry carpentered
• In turn, the Amerindianizing of his Spanish heritage (through his mother's mixed background) carries “vestiges of Trinidad's original, 'authentic,' and somewhat romanticized past, in the form of aboriginal blood.2007, Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics, page 125. From the entry Amerindianize
• During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.2003, Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We…. From the entry fleeting
• But critics argue that the potential for a cyberghetto is real because the Internet will retain vestiges of traditional communities with similar hierarchical social linkages and class-structural relationships.1998, Bosah L. Ebo, Cyberghetto or Cybertopia?: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet. From the entry cyberghetto
• She still had the vestiges of a headache, and she needed to save her ability to spellcast, especially with Behlem—and possibly his consort—out to get her.1997, L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt, Jr., chapter 94, in The Soprano Sorceress (Spellsong Cycle; 1), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 377. From the entry spellcast
• However, the Epimyrma habit of reginicide cannot be written off simply as an unfortunate vestige from an earlier time when the Epimyrma ancestors were temporary parasites.1975, Edward O. Wilson, “Social Symbioses”, in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, part II, “Social Mechanisms”, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard…. From the entry reginicide
• Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Livvie’s broom.1943, Eudora Welty, “Livvie”, in The Wide Net and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., page 156. From the entry dirt yard
• An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411. From the entry disjustive
• Just as important is the recognition of those forms of theory, pedagogy and curriculum—vestiges of the 'humanist Victorian missionary'—that continue to visit the sins of culturism on children in classrooms.2003, Alex Moore, Teaching Multicultured Students: Culturalism and Anti-culturalism in the .... From the entry culturism

Meaning of vestige

1. noun A mark left on the earth by a foot.
2. noun A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.
3. noun A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

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Questions about vestige in a sentence

How do you use vestige in a sentence?

Vestige is used as a noun. For example: “Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative.”

What is a short sentence with vestige?

“vestiges of former population”

What does vestige mean?

Vestige means a mark left on the earth by a foot.