Example sentences for: relic

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

  • Much has changed since then, and teen-age girls are now a quaint relic of a bygone day, or perhaps it's husbands and houses that are the quaint relics.

  • The characters are photographed iconically, as in an Eisenstein film: the spiritually crippled black dad with his modest Afro against the weather-beaten relic of a Coney Island ride, for example.

  • While Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley are best known for their promotion of supply-side economics, they are equally dedicated to the belief that the key to prosperity is a return to the gold standard, which John Maynard Keynes pronounced a "barbarous relic" more than 60 years ago.

  • Jesse Helms is a paradigmatic relic.

  • But to reverse its four-decade decline, the AFL-CIO will need to do more than adopt the SEIU's organizing wizardry: It must convince the nation at large that organized labor is not simply a lobby, a New Deal relic, or a clubhouse full of gray-suited men.


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