Example sentences for: vestige

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

  • The privileged position of the analyst, after all, is a vestige of the days when just about all investors had accounts with the major brokerage houses.

  • Captain Arthur Knowles and his First Mate Harold Sherman used a neat expression for the sky when a cool northwesterly breeze swept over the bay clearing out every vestige of cloud except those low to the southeast, where the warm water of the Gulf Stream condensed as a ragged range of billowy clouds.

  • Thousands perished and much of China’s cultural heritage was destroyed as a vestige of feudalism.

  • Bounty hunters' privileges are a vestige of British common law . Since the Middle Ages, courts have appointed custodians for defendants awaiting trial.

  • CWC opponents may muster the 34 votes needed to prevent a two-thirds ratification vote (thanks to the earnest but clueless Jesse Helms and two of the most rabidly reactionary institutions in politics today: the Wall Street Journal 's editorial page and a reptilian Cold War vestige called the Center for Security Policy).


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