Example sentences for: vestige

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

  • While Indonesia's population is nearly 90 percent Muslim, the Timorese are predominantly Roman Catholic--a vestige of Portuguese missions.

  • But KSM states he refused to swear a formal oath of allegiance to Bin Ladin, thereby retaining a last vestige of his cherished autonomy.

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

  • These days, it is a vestige, whose only real wellspring of importance is a president who elevates it with his blandishments and listens to its advice.

  • In Artemisia s.l ., the typical limb of the Anthemideae-type ray florets are reduced to a membranous vestige, giving the impression that the small capitula are composed only of disk florets, referred to as disciform capitula (inflorescence) by Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] . In other members of the genus, the ray flowers are absent, thus the capitulum is composed only of disk florets, i.e ., discoid.


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