How to Use vestige in a Sentence

vestige

noun
Definition of vestigenext
Synonyms for vestigenext
  • The 11th Street route in Michigan City is the last vestige of that era.
    — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2021
  • That doesn’t mean that aren’t still vestiges of that past.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The journey is one of the last vestiges of a nomadic past.
    — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But as a vestige of that shameful era, the noose lives on.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • The demise of the news conference also erased the last vestiges of the reform era.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Like much of Twitter’s rebranding to X, there are still a lot of vestiges of the old brand on the page.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There is the lingering vestige of the need for facetime in the office.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • That word was a vestige of a hateful Jim Crow era that most Americans agreed to leave in the past.
    — John Blake, CNN, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Opponents labeled the plan a vestige of the Nazi era and took to the streets in numerous cities.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 21 Jan. 2024
  • And a vestige, too, of an era when adultness was a bit more defined and refined.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The dreaded toilet-side telephone, a vestige of the pre-cellphone world, was still in place.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • In one week, the last vestiges of that order are upended.
    — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Think of the recording sessions for Bruce Springsteen’s new album as a proud vestige of the pre-Zoom era.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The convertible was the sole vestige of Berry’s mother that stayed in the family — but that was short-lived.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The taqueria, still known as La Xalapeña, is a vestige of La Jalapeña’s once glorious presence in the city.
    — Alan Chazaro, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The vestige of this ceiling carries over even after it’s all done.
    — Nate Sloan, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2021
  • The wind ripped steady and strong, whipping up sand, a stinging reminder of the recent storm that had blown through, this wreck a vestige of it.
    — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Perry’s Deli has given up its last vestige at the Bacci Pizzeria in the Loop.
    — Louisa Chu, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The Philippine forces are stationed atop a rusting ship that has been grounded there since 1999 and now serves as a vestige of Manila’s claim to the area.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
  • That’s a vestige of our furry mammalian ancestors, which puffed out their hair to trap heat closer to the skin.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The low prices of the winter months, says Elliman agent Jessica Levine, are a vestige.
    — Noah Kirsch, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • Once the rebellious mark of sailors and bikers, tattoos long ago shed any vestige of being a fringe art form.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2022
  • One of the last vestiges of democracy was the national elections.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The case, in a way, is the last, great vestige of the IRS before it was gutted by budget cuts over the course of the 2010s and corporate audits plummeted.
    — Paul Kiel, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The most impressive growth came in the form of a tomato plant that had begun fruiting, likely a vestige of a logger’s lunch.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Many of the works involve paper collages that evoke domino tiles, vestiges of the games Lowe played with locals from Houston to Athens.
    — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Their holdings now add up to more than 3,000 acres, securing a vestige of a landscape that covered much more of the Southeast in pre-Columbian times.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Kanakuri kept some vestige of fitness by running up and down the station platform whenever the train stopped.
    — Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Tulloch’s studio at Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood is home to the vestiges of past and future projects.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 19 July 2024
  • And in series, the industry’s aggressive cost cutting over the past 24 months has inspired the streamers to take another look at the program formats that were once seen as vestiges of the pre-streaming era.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 May 2024

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