vestige

Example Sentences

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The middle layers of management—so central to today’s corporate structure—could be a vestige of the past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Everywhere Jay and his entourage go, a piece of cheesecake follows, the last, haunting vestige of a star’s rider that should’ve been updated long ago.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025

In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

Today, some defunct European dynasties maintain their chivalric orders as a lingering vestige of the power they once held.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024

Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father’s name.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr