residuum

Example Sentences

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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015

The first machine age, which today is coming to an end, has covered the world with the residuum of its work: houses and cities.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty."

From Time Magazine Archive

What harm does the little residuum or germ of actuality that I leave in God do?

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William