Example sentences for: relics

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

  • However, upon canonization, saints have frequently been disinterred so their remains can be dismembered and turned into relics.

  • For most tourists the prime attraction of the region is found in the northeast part of town: the Hunan Provincial Museum, with its renowned relics of the Han Dynasty, including silks, ceramics, and lacquerware of unbelievable sophistication, as well as alluring figurines and musical instruments.

  • In Shanghai the interest shifts to relics of uninhibited prewar capitalism and scenes of the city’s contemporary energy and flair.

  • Small stupas found around Buddhist and Hindu temples and known as chaityas are erected to hold relics or in memory of individuals.

  • The upbeat spin: The current hours are relics of Wall Street's white-shoe era; the global economy obeys no clock, and neither should the trading floor.


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