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

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

But the opportunity to be in that orbit of this last vestige of American live television that still exists with its impracticalities … there’s no replicating it.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 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