Example sentences for: survivals

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

  • It is ironic that lubra , a word for a black woman—usually a younger woman than is connoted by the Dharuk gin —was one of the few survivals of the Tasmanian languages, in which it has been suggested that it meant penis.

  • His approach to folklore study was that of the established tradition of the times, which examined current customs, traditions, folkways, and folk narratives as survivals of an earlier civilization.

  • And there are spoken examples of British regional dialect survivals: the litmus test for a Tasmanian native is the pronunciation and use of rum-un an `eccentric.


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