residuum
Example Sentences
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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015
The danger of "an undefined residuum of power," he added, is "that it might lead under emergencies to results of an arbitrary character, doing irremedial injustice to private rights."
From Time Magazine Archive
And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty."
From Time Magazine Archive
The modern Irish shillalah, then, is only the residuum of the ancient Irish broad-axe—the broad-axe with its head taken off.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James
Vocabulary lists containing residuum
"Stranger in the Village"
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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