Used in a Sentence

remained

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for remained.

Editorial note

If the vehicles remained visible they'd have to fix the bugs - this way they'll simply pretend they did.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of remained gathered in one view.

verb

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

verb

To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.

verb

To await; to be left to.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for remained.

verb

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

verb

To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared.

verb

To await; to be left to.

verb

(copulative) To continue in a state of being.

Example sentences

1

If the vehicles remained visible they'd have to fix the bugs - this way they'll simply pretend they did.

2

In the end though, even though the Mac remained technologically superior for a long time, and had a superior UI....

3

Amid this growth both the mailing list and the IRC channel have remained helpful and friendly.

4

He removed 1 of the 6 caryatids from the Erechtheion, for example; the 5 that remained in Greece are still extant.

5

And the notion that black lives, black bodies, and black wealth were rightful targets remained deeply rooted in the broader society.

6

Maggot lives west of the Brandywine, remained there when Frodo left, and never even knew that Frodo would be leaving the Shire.

7

Did Mozilla have the resources to clearly specify how a reference implementation should work, even if the only actual implementation remained Sqlite?

8

Whatever remained of the Chinese intellectual elite also moved to Taiwan with the ROC.

9

Even when we did experience feature freezing between 2001-2007, the web remained king despite attacks from Flash.

10

And if Facebook had just remained that it would have been a fad.

11

But, like most of my pet projects, this has remained a pipe dream.

12

Upshot: usenet clients remained rooted in the early 1990s at best.

Quote examples

1

:) Otherwise, all of you "hackers" might have remained oblivious to the fact that jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, etc.

2

If you don't do any Web browsing but remained in contact with your family over Whatsapp, you will term it as, "I was off the Web to save time, but I did use Whatsapp." That does not mean what this article concludes, that you don't think that Whatsapp uses Internet.

3

As long as GS was taken seriously, the culture remained "If you're a bank, don't do really stupid shit just because you think you can make a quick buck." Once it started being eroded the culture became "Wheee!" - and unsurprisingly everything exploded and the wheels came off.

4

It appears according to the abstract that it beats other languages while being implemented as "just a library": "Our library-only implementation (...) For many uses, it equals or outperforms equivalent code in languages with built-in type-switching constructs, such as OCaml and Haskell" In my opinion major weakness of C++ is just that the linker features more or less remained out of the language design.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use remained in a sentence?

If the vehicles remained visible they'd have to fix the bugs - this way they'll simply pretend they did.

What does remained mean?

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

What part of speech is remained?

remained is commonly used as verb.