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Example sentences for: remnant

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Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
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.
Rather than being an evolutionary remnant, it is a dynamic and continually adapting system.
The remnant residue was dissolved in saline and subjected to analysis.