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vestige - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- encampment: Some vestiges of an encampment can be traced near the burn of Barden.
- empire: Not a vestige of any such empire has been found whether through digging or through studying ancient texts.
- democracy: In China, the government is now shutting down any vestige of democracy or rule of law left in Hong Kong.
- past: Furthermore, English will also carry with it vestiges of a colonial past.
- power: However, it's hard sucking up every remaining vestige of power in a country.
Converse of object
- retain: He also retains some vestiges of his native heritage, which makes him unique.
- remove: It was he who finally removed the last vestiges of the god Apollo, with the laurel band becoming an ear of barley.
- lose: Work finally lost the last vestiges of appeal that it had.
- remain: The body is placed under the earth, and after a certain period there remains no vestige even of its form.
- leave: The neglected classes of earlier times left few vestiges of their passing.
Adjective modifier
- remaining: Any remaining vestige of an Indian Summer is quickly blown away Birds; Butterflies; Bats; Fungi; .. .
- last: The last vestiges of my hangover blew away in the wind of our speed.
- slight: And it's really of no interest at all to anyone with the slightest vestige of intelligence.
- only: A slender rougher pasture leads to the brow; only vestiges of this old enclosed way remain.
- few: The neglected classes of earlier times left few vestiges of their passing.
- other: But this, like many other vestiges of our past, is an instinctive reaction.
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