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
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
The danger of "an undefined residuum of power," he added, is "that it might lead under emergencies to results of an arbitrary character, doing irremedial injustice to private rights."
From Time Magazine Archive
Now if these, or a considerable proportion of them, had been drawn from the moral residuum of England, a very serious impression would have been made on the ranks of vice and crime.
From Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by Foote, G. W. (George William)
Vocabulary lists containing residuum
"Stranger in the Village"
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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