- plural of remnant.
remnants
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
An AFP photographer saw the building that was hit in Kfar Rumman had been destroyed, with school books and remnants of furniture strewn across the rubble.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
On a summer morning before the heat set in, he pointed out the spot where his flock of over a dozen birds once roamed, strutting across the sand like remnants of the Jurassic era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
True reasoning convinced me that I should wholly subtract all remnants of every kind of form if I wished to conceive the absolutely formless.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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