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Example sentences for: remnant

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It's sad to see a great institution reduced to a tattered geriatric remnant of its former self.
The Ancient Beijing Observatory (Guguanxiangtai), built in 1442, stands atop a remnant of the old city wall on the busiest street in central Beijing (Jianguomenwaidajie).
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.
Among them are the mystical, ultra-observant Hasidim; their enclave in Jerusalem, the Mea She’arim neighborhood, is a small remnant of those traditional Jewish communities in Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania that were consumed by the Holocaust.
Highlights of the day: 1) The Oklahoma City medical examiner enumerated detached body parts collected from the scene and 2) Northern Ireland's former chief medical examiner recounted a bombing case in which an extra penis found at the site turned out to be the sole intact remnant of the man who had carried the bomb.