vestige

Example Sentences

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Reason magazine calls it the “lost remnants of a pre-vibe-shift culture, the last vestige of a fully woke world.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

They were tough sanctions, removing any vestige of royal status.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The company’s prebankruptcy $16.1-billion debt load was a vestige of its 2008 private equity leveraged buyout.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 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

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