vestige

Example Sentences

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Mr. Sashima, 72, said it was time for his people to regain what they see as a natural right, and restore one of the last vestiges of a decimated Ainu identity.

From New York Times

Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government nearly two years ago, the group has erased most obvious vestiges of the American nation-building project in Afghanistan.

From New York Times

The waterway, called Mussel Slough, is a fragment of the natural channels that once fed the lake, a vestige of the ecosystem that was transformed into canals and farmland.

From Los Angeles Times

To perform it, Cuiffo, 45, had to unlearn most of his habits, to strip away any vestige of showmanship.

From New York Times

The vestiges of these histories, now mostly disappeared, subsist in dilapidated British colonial buildings and houses with Cuban-Brazilian type architecture built by formerly enslaved people who returned to Nigeria in the late 19th century.

From New York Times