vestige

Example Sentences

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They were tough sanctions, removing any vestige of royal status.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

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

The company’s prebankruptcy $16.1-billion debt load was a vestige of its 2008 private equity leveraged buyout.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 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

He let go of every former vestige in his life, except football.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger