Example sentences for: relic

How can you use “relic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • All in all, it's a bad memory of a silly time in American history, a relic of a national embarrassment.

  • It is a grotesque relic of a defused threat, and we can feel good knowing that we have triumphed over its implications.

  • Reckoning by nights is a relic of the Celtic custom of starting the day at sunset.

  • Some shrewd inner compass and an unholy supply of curiosity saved him from becoming a relic of the past or an embattled opponent of the present.

  • There is an interesting main attraction in a reliquary in a rear chapel: the Szent Jobb (“Holy Right”) is the much revered holy relic of the right hand of St. Stephen; you’ll need a 20-forint piece to illuminate it.


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