REMNANT in a Sentence

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38 example sentences for REMNANT, such as:

1. A remnant of instinct guided her vaguely.
2. Few remnants remain of the city's glorious past.
3. To these your coasts we a scanty remnant floated up.
4. But some remnant of pride, of common sense stiffened her.
5. There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat.

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 Meanings and Examples of REMNANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
remnant
 n.  remainder; small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Melanie was young but she had in her all the qualities this embattled remnant prized, poverty and pride in poverty, uncomplaining courage, gaiety, hospitality, kindness and, above all, loyalty to all the old traditions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
3  His voice still held a remnant of its wonted cool drawl but beneath the words she could feel violence fighting its way to the surface, violence as cruel as the crack of a whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
4  But some remnant of pride, of common sense stiffened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
5  The only remnant of Vida's identification of herself with Carol was a jealousy when she saw Kennicott and Ray together, and reflected that some people might suppose that Kennicott was his superior.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the regiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly back.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  There existed in his victory a remnant of defiance and of combat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
8  That formidable remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—CAMBRONNE
9  A remnant of instinct guided her vaguely.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
10  As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer window.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV—JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES
11  The wood was a remnant of the great forest where Robin Hood hunted, and this riding was an old, old thoroughfare coming across country.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  Labour should be kept in active operation, and, even as, in a mill, flour comes flowing from grain, so should cash, and yet more cash, come flowing from every atom of refuse and remnant.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
14  Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
15  To these your coasts we a scanty remnant floated up.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  I suggest that you wait until the store places the remnant of that big fish on sale.
2  His attack to the south would bring him right across the remnants of C Troop, facing to the west.
3  Few remnants remain of the city's glorious past.
4  From palaces to the desert mounds, remnants of this ancient culture litter the landscape.