remnants

[ rem-nuhnts ]

noun

1. the plural of remnant.

Example Sentences

The remnants of this history are still evident in the structure of the job.

From Los Angeles Times

The team helped move the remnants of the battery-powered GoCars to a safe area of the parking lot so they could be properly removed by a hazardous materials contractor, said Battalion Chief Robert Rezende, an expert in lithium-ion battery fires and the region’s first alternative-energy emergency response coordinator.

From Los Angeles Times

What is one down-ballot item you are voting on that you think is particularly important: In California, Proposition 6 is a constitutional amendment to end indentured servitude in state prisons, which many consider the last remnants of slavery.

From Slate

Yet two years on from the peace deal that ended the war, there are still people being killed and wounded by the remnants of warfare.

From BBC

The latter made his bones in the UK division of Rupert Murdoch’s lying machine as a Mr. Fixit, cleaning up the remnants of Murdoch’s phone-hacking scandal by deleting inconvenient emails and sowing the landscape with red herrings.

From Salon

Related Words

• debris
• rubble
• wreck