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remnants

[rem-nuhnt]

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noun

a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.

a fragment or scrap.

a small, unsold or unused piece of cloth, lace, etc., as at the end of a bolt.

a trace; vestige: remnants of former greatness.

adjective

remaining; leftover.

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Remnants is always a great word to know.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English remna(u)nt, contraction of remenant < Old French, present participle of remenoir to remain

Related forms

rem·nant·al, adjective

Synonyms
1. remainder, residue, residuum, rest, remains.

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Example Sentences

At the former stadium sites, the only remnants are plaques and the names, which are attached to housing projects.

Puddin' meat is basically the remnants of butchering, cooked down in a pot and ground up.

They reveal their youth by sitting right in the middle of supernova remnants that have yet to fade away.

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At the former stadium sites, the only remnants are plaques and the names, which are attached to housing projects.

Puddin' meat is basically the remnants of butchering, cooked down in a pot and ground up.

They reveal their youth by sitting right in the middle of supernova remnants that have yet to fade away.

Astronomers have been puzzled, however, by a shortage of young supernova remnants in our galaxy.

Most researchers think of them as microscopic pinpricks, the remnants of stars that have collapsed under their own weight.

We nuzzle up to land and jump onto the remnants of a sea wall.

Don't overlook remnants when shopping for a countertop.

Trace fossils are neither fossilized remnants of hard body parts nor are they perfect imprints of soft body parts.

These remnants are, from a biological point of view, islands.

Conversely, the minnows often move in late to pick over remnants left by bigger fish.

Remnants of the island's original vegetation serve as critical biodiversity hot spots.

Every year new generations of corals build their homes on the stony remnants of their ancestors.

The remnants of a decades abandoned nurse's station.

Make display frames out of wood remnants and celebrate small plants as living art.

Sentient plants, animals, and mutated humans battled it out over the remnants of society.

The trail led to remnants of the south gate, and there.

But remnants of the old ways are still to be found everywhere.

Neutron stars are ancient remnants of stars that have reached the end of their evolutionary journey through space and time.

They travel around the gas giant in distinct clusters, which suggests they are the shattered remnants of prior moons.

Your group will help preserve the ecology and the remnants of a remarkable history.

Steel fabricators' remnants make striking garden art.

Given enough time, the tattered remnants of a tiger population can begin to recover.

WE no longer have the remnants of addicts as a first welcome sight.

Instead of throwing out your small remnants of bath soap, use them to create new cleaning options for your home.

Plants thrive off the nutrient remnants of their ancestors and peers.

Mohammed leads me past the debris-strewn remnants of the house's front, through the kitchen to a dim room in the back.

The remnants of two mannequins that were launched by rockets.

Stored in the remnants of a stone building, the boat consisted of reeds and tar.

There were remnants of the old cypress swamp, and great blue herons, and bald eagles-lots of them.

Because of the presence of iron, the spheres were thought to be remnants of blood cells.

Their mission: to prevent workers from unloading so-called e-waste, the toxic remnants of computers and other electronic devices.

Now scientists have plans to save its remnants from the rising tide of development.

History is riddled with the remnants of photographic tampering.

Hikers can still see remnants of their life, including piles of stones cleared from farmland, as well as the family graveyard.

The remnants of these vitellogenins can still be found in our genomes today.

Scientists study the remnants of these blasts for clues about the life and death of stars.

Incidentally, there is a search going on right now for the remnants of those cities.

What's more, the mysterious story she coaxes from the two thousand year-old remnants may also predict the future.

In those days he was a mod young guy in the carpet business, rich in remnants.

Criminal gangs that have sprung from the remnants of right-wing paramilitary groups have also gone into mining.

Remnants of antidepressant drugs flushed into waterways worldwide are.

Small remnants of toys, bottles and packaging persist in the ocean, harming marine life and possibly even us.

The series is set in a high-anxiety future, where totalitarianism has nearly snuffed out the remnants of humanity.

Stumps dot the landscape, remnants of the once-stately trees that shaded the town.

The dark rifts are likely remnants from supernova explosions while the blue gas is a reflection nebula.

Becher are after-images, resuscitated versions or isolated remnants of the originals.

Eventually the gravity from these stellar remnants gets so strong that not even light can escape.

We are finally starting to see the remnants of some of the oldest objects in the universe".

Today, only a few remnants from the contents of that saddlebag survive.

The remnants of a toppled street sign attested to the power of a lethal tornado.

The unserviced remnants do not generate enough demand to justify the high cost of new services.

The discovery suggests that many other fossil bones may contain well-preserved remnants of bone marrow, the scientists say.

Whether waste paper or raked leaves, the plant remnants still contain.

Arrowheads, beads, ceramic shards and stone-tool remnants were strewn all over.

But there will always be some remnants of the infection.

We must try and maintain this heartbeat in the body of the motherland, and keep alive the remnants of hope in our veins.

There is a prediction that there will be remnants of ancient humanoid cities.

He can drive around town and see the remnants of private company disasters.

During that process her blood turns a dark color and remnants of the eggs can be visible in the.

Good point, although it could be the remnants of native water plus cometary water.

These neurons respond to blue light and may be remnants of evolutionarily ancient organs from our invertebrate past.

Remnants of elephant tusks indicate that merchant shops were trading in ivory.

Its short forelimbs made liftoff impossible, though they may be the evolutionary remnants of.

These dark remnants of collapsed stars seem almost designed to play on some of our primal fears:.

The blocks are the remnants of a spillway across a sloping dam that may have extended as long as a football field.

But they are really remnants of the last ice age and to some extent the little ice age.

The eruption was so violent that it blew the mountain apart, leaving only rocky remnants sticking up from the sea.

Not to rain on your patriotic parade plans any more, but you can't count on recycling the smoky remnants either:.

These have included flints, animal bones, and remnants of fruit and cereal grains.

There are remnants of soft tissue between the toes of the back feet, suggesting that they were webbed.

What happens if it's decided that they have found remnants of that long-ago tragedy is less certain.

Astronomers have indeed seen the remnants of a previously unknown kind of stellar explosion.

Remnants of the legendary trail lead to modern thrills.

What question remains is: are galaxies surrounded by smaller black hole remnants to form the dark matter halo.

We have the remnants of an anti-science, right-wing christian mentality in the.

The remnants still exist on modern constrictors as appendages to hold-fast during snake-love-making cheers.

The platypus and alligator are remnants of these transitions.

We call these remnants of organisms inside cells plastids.

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Word Origin & History

remnant

c.1350, from O.Fr. remanant, prop. prp. of remanoir "to remain" (see remain). Specific sense of "end of a piece of drapery, cloth, etc." is recorded from 1433.

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