Example sentences for: relic

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

  • Fado’s origins are unclear; it may have developed as a form of mourning for men lost at sea or it may be a relic of the days of slavery — a kind of Iberian blues.

  • Golden Buddha statues in several of Buddha’s aspects adorn the temples, and overlooking them is the 17-story Flower Pagoda, a slender relic of the Song dynasty (a.d.

  • It frequently persists, however, as an etymological relic (French homme from Latin homo ) or with an imagined etymological value (French haut , actually from Latin altus , but influenced by Old High German hoh high).

  • Still, Chatterbox hates to think that Out-of-Town News will become some sort of museum of print, a precious relic of a bygone age.

  • The very word convict is more prominent in everyday spoken English than it is in, say, Sydney, with compounds like convict brick, convict building, convict garden, convict piner, convict relic, and convict settlement.


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