remnants

[rem-nuhnts]

noun

1. the plural of remnant.

Example Sentences

These fast-moving particles may have been created in extreme environments such as black holes, star forming regions or the remnants of exploded stars.

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“There’s remnants of what the ride became,” Hahn says, pointing to the map’s depictions of tunnels and sandy areas with hidden loot.

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Since the project’s first album in 2007, he has been unearthing abandoned remnants of music history and rewiring them for our fragmented present.

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This resolves a long-standing tension in cosmic ray research: while supernova remnants are known to produce cosmic rays, both data and theory suggest they cannot account for the energies seen at and above the "knee."

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When he stumbles upon the hut of a shepherd who flees at the sight of him, he “greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd’s breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk and wine.”

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Related Words

• debris 
• rubble 
• wreck