Used in a Sentence

remnants

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

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Common Lisp, it's true, does have a lot of remnants from the past which make it ugly.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

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

noun

An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

noun

The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for remnants.

noun

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

noun

An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.

noun

The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.

noun

(politics, with the) The passionate, influential minority of radicals in a faction or party.

Example sentences

1

Common Lisp, it's true, does have a lot of remnants from the past which make it ugly.

2

Clearly these cases should be clearly marked, but how often do you encounter these undocumented remnants of lost institutional knowledge.

3

It didn't even look like they were selling their own ads - mostly remnants and retargeting.

4

We're talking about a country that requires its schoolchildren to tour the remnants of a genocide committed only 70 years ago.

5

To hang onto the tattered remnants of their empires while keeping their own people in line despite their declining political legitimacy.

6

This article looks like an attempt by the currently dominant elite network to smash the last remnants of the one it displaced.

7

My mother and the remnants of her family fled communist Russia in 1970.

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You're confusing the remnants of an event for the start of the universe.

9

They back up their claims with various arguments as to the nature of the average consumer and echoes and remnants of trickle-down economics theories.

10

I clean my living space, clear out old baggage and remnants of old identities, to make space for the new.

11

It does, it's the vestigial remnants of whatever makes the baby sleep...

12

Franzen's take, IMO, was less suicide as final career move and more suicide as final act of self-loathing and rejection of last remnants of positivity.

Quote examples

1

The "product" they're working on is the remnants of a side-project that went nowhere.

2

> "Even though the remnants of old projects can sometimes feel like tombstones or failure markers, for some reason we don't feel the same way about, say, an old save game file." Very true.

Proper noun examples

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Remnants like attachEvent, X-UA-Compatible, currentStyle were all purged from the new engine.

2

Remnants what LA used to be before the mass migration west and before the US government deported millions of US citizens of Mexican heritage [1].

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use remnants in a sentence?

Common Lisp, it's true, does have a lot of remnants from the past which make it ugly.

What does remnants mean?

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

What part of speech is remnants?

remnants is commonly used as noun.