Example sentences for: relics

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

  • Ethical debates about the appropriate care and maintenance of biological relics often begin at the autopsy table.

  • This most symbolic of Crete’s religious relics was not to return to the island until 1966.

  • Our findings provide concrete insights into rRNA intron fixation and are more compatible with the view that both the spliceosomal and group I intron distributions reflect fundamental features of present-day genes and genomes and that introns may not be relics of an ancient intron-rich period of cells.

  • The late 15th-century cathedral (Duomo di San Giovanni) cherishes one of Italy’s most celebrated (and controversial) relics, the shroud said to have wrapped Jesus after his descent from the cross, taking the imprint of his face and body.

  • It has splendid marble paving and, etched in the wall of one of the smaller rooms, a controversial cross regarded by some as one of the oldest Christian relics, though others insist the emblem was not adopted until the conversion of Constantine three centuries later.


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