residualin a sentence
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At then end of the lease, you can purchase the car for its remaining residual value.
residual = something left after most of what was there is gone
- The downpour ends and there's only the residual drippings of water from branches, the rush of the now overflowing stream below us.† (source)
- She pointed out the obvious as they drove-that the first daffodils had pushed their brave heads through the snow on the median strip of Main Street; that the Sterling College crew team was training on the Connecticut River, the bows of their boats breaking through the residual ice.† (source)
- She has moved on from Katrina in many ways, and yet the residual effects arrive at unexpected times.† (source)
- We have residual heat signatures all over the place.† (source)
- I was shaking with fear, with residual terror that took all the strength out of me.† (source)
- Their lifters could fail but, even so, the residual charge in the EM generators would allow the aircar to descend safely from any altitude.† (source)
- She has just enough residual energy to swing into their driveway.† (source)
- Their fights didn't so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.† (source)
- This was no solution, however, since the residual decay heat was sufficient to melt everything in the compartment.† (source)
- That defect affected the residual good hemisphere.† (source)
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- He didn't even stay around to shower after workout, which means in an hour he'll feel like he's staked on an anthill from the residual chlorine.† (source)
- He took off his spectacles and jammed them onto the hook, residual blood smearing down the wall.† (source)
- In his water you will administer the residual poison developed by the late Piter de Vries.† (source)
- Obviously, there's going to be residual anger—" "How many of these notes did you write, Julian?"† (source)
- The residual life aura can interfere with spells?† (source)
- He was diagnosed as having a kidney infection, one that he believes was facilitated by residual tissue damage from the Shiga toxins.† (source)
- He could hear the residual rage in my voice.† (source)
- He has never had the medical tests which would definitely prove or disprove the existence of residual brain damage.† (source)
- The flames had been residual gas burning off and never reached Adam's skin.† (source)
- Any residual gratitude Max felt for Peter's past aid vanished in an instant.† (source)
- Aside from the residual tenderness in and around his nuts, Colin's entire body was sore from a day spent walking and running and shooting and getting hit.† (source)
- I recommend that you continue private therapy to deal with any residual feelings now that you've remembered the incident.† (source)
- I can't tell if it's because of what Dominique just said, or if it's residual curiosity concerning what I told her earlier in the evening, about her son's medical aspirations.† (source)
- "After this amount of time we might see behavioral evidence," Dr. P. said, "but there is no residual physical damage."† (source)
- I take another deep breath and let it out slowly, making sure all residual feelings are under control.† (source)
- It could locate harbor mines by wave-motion deformities and it could obtain a precise photograph of a factory from the residual heat of the building four hours after it had shut down.† (source)
- MAYBE IT WAS THE RESIDUAL ENERGY FROM THE POWER she'd practiced, combined with the excitement of a new job, but Iona felt she could have sprinted all the way to the village.† (source)
- The MTs treated her for the drug, but she'll have some residual effects.† (source)
- He moved the flashlight away, but she still saw residual circles of light.† (source)
- When the bathroom door slammed shut behind him, she walked over to the bed—neatly made up, no residual silver on the coverlet—and sank down, putting her head in her hands.† (source)
- Our American Cousin starts at eight, and his plan will go into action shortly after ten P.M. If all goes well, any residual effects of the afternoon's alcohol will have worn off by then.† (source)
- I can so clearly see you demanding something from the performing arts that just isn't residual there.† (source)
- Or perhaps it is truer that forgiveness is inexhaustible, that it is miraculously depthless and renewing as long as you so wish it, no matter what has become of it, no matter how residual and meager.† (source)
- For one thing, he discovered that even after all these months she had the residual effects of scurvy.† (source)
- Studying math and science has residual benefits when studying other subjects.
- People are beginning to appreciate the importance of managing residual herbicides in soil.
- Residual products from the desalination are pumped back into the sea.
- The residual smoke from the feathers has made my eyes teary, which adds a very nice touch.† (source)
- This established a firm seal between the two vessels, and the residual water was pumped out.† (source)
- There's no way of removing the residual poison.† (source)
- Victims are marked by beet-colored tattoos that cause residual pain for many years.† (source)
- Only a few emergency lights remained on from residual battery power.† (source)
- Others disintegrated on their own as the residual power of Diocletian's scepter finally failed.† (source)
- He studied my fingertips as if looking for residual magic.† (source)
- A few residual waves slapped the ship's side, and then the ocean was calm.† (source)
- Subject successfully eliminated flames and further sapped residual heat from logs.† (source)
- I hoped my residual aura of Frey-glow might do him some good, but he still looked pretty weak.† (source)
- For a while, they're obscured by the residual blood droplets that I can't seem to wipe from my vision.† (source)
- She is gliding down the antebellum tree-lined lanes of White Columns, one microplantation after another, still coasting on the residual kinetic energy boost that originated in the fuel in Studley the Teenager's gas tank.† (source)
- RESIDUAL POISON: an innovation attributed to the Mentat Piter de Vries whereby the body is impregnated with a substance for which repeated antidotes must be administered.† (source)
- His duty electrician moved along the electrical control panels switching from main power to emergency, since residual steam power in the turboalternators would die in a few more seconds.† (source)
- Lights-out never really meant lights-out—there was always some residual bulb shining somewhere in the prison.† (source)
- Maybe we had some residual connection from the healing magic, but when I met Hearthstone's eyes, I could tell what he was thinking.† (source)
- The warm buttery aura was starting to fade, but I could feel residual power tingling along my arm hairs.† (source)
- Indeed, I'm sure it was both my residual Calvinism and my clerical disguise—also that damnable church bell—which helped cause me to falter so badly when Sophie woke me.† (source)
- The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.† (source)
- Still, I took the politely proffered paw and shook it warmly, resisting the urge to wipe a certain residual stickiness on my skirt.† (source)
- Reassuringly, their place, where none could hear them talk, being secluded, reassured, the decocted beverages, allowing for subsolid residual sediment of a mechanical mixture, water plus sugar plus cream plus cocoa, having been consumed.† (source)
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