remnant
IPA: rˈɛmnʌnt
noun
- The small portion remaining of a larger thing or group.
- The remaining fabric at the end of the bolt.
- An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
adjective
- (archaic) Still left; remaining.
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Examples of "remnant" in Sentences
- The crab nebula is the remnant from a supernova explosion 1054.
- Today the only remnant is Lance Corporal - historically it was a group of 5 riders.
- And, kind of insulting to the reader to be told this remnant is still worth reading.
- Rather than readhere, the tip of a foreskin remnant adheres, leaving a gap between the remnant and the penis.
- He left the game one drive into the fourth quarter, and his mobility was hampered by a bruised left leg that was a remnant from the LSU game.
- And therefore it can be said that their comments were condoned, and that is why I called the remnant of the party that exists today the "despotic rump of maniacs."
- Now, the remnant is usually the group that ultimately gets “saved” after a period of time, and the definition of “saved” obviously depends on what flavor of religion is your choice.
- Amos, in which to make it fit the subject, (which after all it does not fit,) is the substitution of the words, the remnant of men, for the words, remnant of Edom, as it is in the original.
- One is Isa.x. 22, 23, which speaks of the saving of a remnant, that is, but a remnant, which, though in the prophecy it seems to refer to the preservation of a remnant from the destruction and desolation that were coming upon them by Sennacherib and his army, yet is to be understood as looking further, and sufficiently proves that it is no strange thing for God to abandon to ruin a great many of the seed of
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