How to Use vestige in a Sentence

vestige

noun
  • The plant is a vestige of an industry that once loomed large here.
    — Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The last vestiges of the league’s superteam era have vanished.
    — Jerry Brewer, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • But vestiges of its former glory can be seen, inside and out.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Footwear was one of the last vestiges of my old relationship to clothes.
    — Melissa Febos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Woven through the city are vestiges of that trauma and strife from years past and from days and weeks present.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The vestige of this ceiling carries over even after it’s all done.
    — Nate Sloan, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2021
  • And a vestige, too, of an era when adultness was a bit more defined and refined.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The last vestiges of lazy days, one last look over the shoulder at what the summer offered.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • This was the last vestige and loose thread from their relationship.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • As of a few weeks ago, Morales was among the last vestiges of the Pink Tide.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Wild trees, vestiges of that initial boom, still grow on the island’s lush hillsides.
    — Rebecca L. Rhoades, Saveur, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The demise of the news conference also erased the last vestiges of the reform era.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Whom is one of the few remaining vestiges of case in English.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • There is the lingering vestige of the need for facetime in the office.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • This setup, a vestige of the plantation era, has led to years of conflict.
    — Sarah L. Voisin, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • And, so, the last vestige of what Orlando City once was is now gone.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The last vestiges of democracy in Pakistan have been all but erased.
    — Imran Khan, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Still, Boston keeps vestiges of its life under a monarchy.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The guys help Wesley make peace with his past and shed the last vestiges of his old self with confidence.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 10 July 2019
  • The 11th Street route in Michigan City is the last vestige of that era.
    — Tim Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2021
  • On the other, a sister will go to any lengths to hold onto the sole vestige of the family’s heritage.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The glass access panels and monitors and all the vestiges of our digital hubs and nodes are dark like onyx plates in the walls.
    — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
  • Filled with vestiges of yesteryear, the Butte historic district is one of the largest in the country.
    — Janie Osborne, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • While the last vestiges of winter often linger deep into April, May is right around the corner.
    — Ryan Craggs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Those were veteran teams, however, that beat the last vestiges of the Brady Hoke era.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2017
  • But for all his success, Rivera was a vestige of when Jerry Richardson owned the team.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2019
  • 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

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