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Example sentences for: remnant

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A remnant of the Byzantine Empire survived in Nicaea (now Iznik), and recaptured Constantinople in 1261, but the city had been shattered and its great monuments were stripped of gold, silver, and precious works of art.
Carried here lock, stock, and barrel from downtown in the 1930s, this is the town’s oldest surviving building — a post office, general store, and the only remnant from the original Gastown to have escaped the 1886 fire.
Inside the brick tower, which looks like a remnant of the old city wall, are astronomical displays, including a gold foil map of the heavens as they were plotted in China 500 years ago.
At one extreme, C. pneumoniae has lost all tryptophan-pathway genes; C. muridarum has only one remnant (
Rather than being an evolutionary remnant, it is a dynamic and continually adapting system.