Vestiges

Word VESTIGES
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Definitions and meanings of "Vestiges"

What do we mean by vestiges?

The mark of the foot left on the earth.

(by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

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The word "vestiges" in example sentences

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Long assumed to be vestiges from the time when whale ancestors had body hair, it now seems that these structures have a role in sensing vibrations. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

There were no leeches, no film or scum or snapping turtles, no monstrous vestiges from the Cretaceous Age lurking in the depths. ❋ Unknown (1999)

And I knew that the falling wreckage might contain vestiges of personal friends; certainly acquaintances. ❋ Unknown (1944)

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It certainly would have been more liberating than just being confined in a memory chamber where periodically he could recall vestiges of family happiness enough to remember some specifics but otherwise only felt their deep residue. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

If the Clinton's still have a penny to their name, that penny should go to paying down the "vestiges" of her debt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What is left in that apartment are what could all too easily be termed "vestiges" of a lifetime. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1986, after nine years of litigation about removing the "vestiges" of segregation, a district judge, Russell Clark, decided that that goal justified judicial Caesarism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Add to this the fact that in these communities those 'vestiges' (including rampant violence, homelessness, poor schools and poor services) perpetuate themselves from one generation to the next and there is a strong argument for the Federal government to push for affirmative action plans (say, based on income rather than race) in order to end it. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

The 'vestiges' and 'survivals' so common in Biology and Sociology are residuary phenomena. ❋ Carveth Read (1889)

In the decades since Brown, most school districts have eliminated "vestiges" of state-sponsored segregation, have been declared to be a "unitary" school district (as opposed to a former dual-race system), and have been released from federal court supervision. ❋ Lindataylor (2010)

Ironically, to a certain extent, it was the Nazis that finally allowed America's political system to end the 'vestiges' (read that Loving decision to see what 'vestige' meant in Virginia in 1955) of its slavery based past - the Nazis used much American created rhetoric to justify their racial evil, and after decades of using the Nazis as a symbol of absolute evil, it became difficult for 'white supremacy' (yes, that means Thurmond too) to appear in any other light but what it was. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"vestiges" of "old attempts to use intelligence," but the relationship between the two Cold ❋ Unknown (2010)

Notice too that English no longer has gendered nouns and adjectives, although in the many nouns ending with e, such as drope and coppe, medieval versions of “drop,” and “cup,” there are still graphic vestiges of more-inflected Old English. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Take Mount Olivet, the Swedish Lutheran church that has shed nearly all vestiges, save its architecture, of its Swedish roots. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

He ended his opinion by declaring: For schools that never segregated on the basis of race, such as Seattle, or that have removed the vestiges of past segregation, such as Jefferson County, the way ‘to achieve a system of determining admission to the public schools on a nonracial basis,’ is to stop assigning students on a racial basis. ❋ Erwin Chemerinsky (2010)

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