Sample Sentences for
vestige
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    French territories and overseas departments exist as vestiges of the colonial empire.
    vestiges = remaining traces
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    With the last vestige of consciousness she jerked her mind and body.  (source)
    vestige = trace or remaining bit (of something)
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    Every vestige of winter was gone from the valley.  (source)
    vestige = last trace (or last little remaining bit)
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    in his high school days Abel Martinson had been moderately restless, that in the interim between then and now he had changed, and that this truck was the last vestige of his former self:  (source)
    vestige = trace (small amount)
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    the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.  (source)
    vestiges = traces of things that it were previously there
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    However, their antennae seemed almost vestigial.  (source)
    vestigial = an unused trace indicative of something once used
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    In order to remove the last vestige of value from this piece of furniture, Father went over to it and pushed his finger under the loose veneer, which snapped off, leaving a strip of bare wood behind it.  (source)
    vestige = trace
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    All vestiges of the feudal system with its oppression of the poor were abolished.  (source)
    vestiges = traces of something that was previously there
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    The anatomical illusion that had seemed so real slowly disappeared and—like so much we no longer need but can't give up—became vestigial.  (source)
    vestigial = a trace of something that was previously there
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    Not a vestige of it was to be seen.  (source)
    vestige = a trace of something
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    ... a darkness sucking any last vestiges of hope from his heart.  (source)
    vestiges = traces
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    We do see vestigial signs of automobiles in our village, but they resemble the signs of life you would dig up in a graveyard if you were inclined to that pastime.†  (source)
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    All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely!  (source)
    vestige = trace (little that remained from a time when there was more)
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