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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.
The irony facing Dole--that converting your status into multiple wives can threaten the status itself--is thus a remnant, though greatly diluted, of our Victorian heritage.
Last week, voters in Seattle passed an initiative that will expand the city's monorail, a quaint remnant of the 1962 World's Fair, elevating it from its current 90-second-tourist-ride status into a 40-mile citywide transit system--at the estimated cost of $1 billion.
Then again, I heard similar effusions from a high official--Jim Warmke, a wiry, sun-burnished old guy in a mustard-colored Western suit who serves as "secretary of commerce and trade" for the Branch McLarian remnant.
Rather than being an evolutionary remnant, it is a dynamic and continually adapting system.