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remnants

synonyms for remnants

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Remnants of food from previous meals can be detected with the naked eye or microscopically.

Remnants of food from previous meals indicate deficient gastric motility.

Accordingly, the Marshal retired with the remnants of his corps to the Elster, only to find the bridge blown up.

The Duke of Tarentum was mainly instrumental in saving the remnants of the army which had managed to cross the Elster.

As we came to each Battalion Headquarters we were told, "These are the remnants of the——," whatever the unit was.

A broken broom, covered with very ancient cobwebs, lay under one manger, and the remnants of a stable-bucket under another.

As I said before, the provisions were execrable; the remnants of the first cabin were sent to us poor wretches.

But I soon recovered some remnants of self-possession, and began feeling for the knob I could no longer see.

THE STAIRCASE AT THE HEARTS DELIGHTANNA KATHARINE GREEN (MRS. CHARLES ROHLFS)

The first taste nauseates me, and I decide to "dine" on the remnants of my breakfast—a piece of bread.

These words are remnants of the close relations that existed between France and Scotland in the sixteenth century.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985