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Sentence Examples To them, Sonny was an anachronism, a relic from a primitive time when the locomotive was technology's cutting edge. Only the odd relic of Stalinist architecture betrayed the country's post-war history. Like previously, the copy in the duplicated block has been erased, and no trace of a pseudogene or relic can be detected in S. cerevisiae. Coombs was a relic of an earlier, gentler time, when the privacy of public officials was normally regarded as sacrosanct. The 65,000-square-foot structure was a relic of the 1970s, designed to house the post office's old computer system. First, several scientists independently launched the hypothesis that the pineal gland is a phylogenic relic, a vestige of a dorsal third eye. They're a relic from the heyday of the revolver as the peace officer's handgun. In a sense, it was this next generation that drove neorealism into repose, making it a relic of a particular time and place. Known as the Ningqiang carbonaceous chondrite, the primitive meteorite is a space relic that formed shortly after the solar system's creation. Hefting the weight of the tiny relic a moment longer, I smile and hand it back, surmising that it's all about trust. He informed her that it was not permissible that a layperson possess such an important relic. He will probably be promising to do that long after the internal combustion engine is a relic of the ancient past. Over the two weeks, she will answer knocks to her door and allow people to handle the relic and pray in her house. It is commonly a relic of a velar or palatal fricative that is preserved as a velar fricative. The produce gardens are a relic of an era when all the wants of the house family and staff were provided by the estate's gardens and home farm. Yet, someone of strong will and character can override such properties and master the relic. A band of gilded silver inscribed with Gothic lettering that reads BRACHIUM S. PHILIPPI encircles the wrist of the arm relic. The stadium resembles a modern archaeological relic poised in an excavated landscape. Hacks offered guided rides, property owners preserved battle damage for display, and relic hunters hawked everything from bones to bullets. When it closed the canal was seen as a dirty, decaying relic of an industrial past, and it sank into decay and dereliction. Show More Sentences San Antonio successfully straddles the line between historic relic and modern city. A classic glacial relic, the tarn lies in a trough that was cut by ice moving across from Great to Little Langdale. Eithne also has the onerous task of visiting groups, hospitals and the sick or anyone else that contacts her wishing to see the relic. In the years after finding them, archaeologists did carbon dating on the relic only to get inconclusive results. Depending on where you sit, it's either a document recodifying a revolution or a relic recycling an obsolescent controversy. The Street administration portrays the mounted unit as a relic of a bygone era. A papal bull of 1145 encouraged this kind of regional pilgrimage to Pistoia by urging Tuscan bishops to promote travel to the relic. It was a mattress and box spring on a cheap metal frame, a relic of Doug's Harvard days. Japanese umbrella pine is a living relic predating the age of the dinosaurs. Like most people of my generation, I regard this as a relic of a less enlightened age. Capital punishment seemed an unacceptable relic of monarchical governments, out of place in a republic. Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners. The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic. Thus, Aristotle's teleological ideas were able to fossilize into a relic that was used as the template against which new ideas were tested. It's tempting to dismiss cliquishness as a relic from high school, along with midterms, lockers, and prom dates. For many, religion per se has become a curious historical anachronism, a dated relic of the old days. They used powerful spells on the relic, that would prove to be most potent and would repel evil forces from using it. As with Paradise, this story begins in a decrepit relic of a house inhabited by women on the edge of a dying town. Far from the masses that thronged to Shimla, Darjeeling, or Mahabaleshwar, I seemed able to find true peace only in relic India. She took tea with her remaining admirers, but in the age of beat poetry and the apolitical pursuit of rapture, seemed something of a relic. Show More Sentences A couple of hundred feet above us, on a small knoll, stood a deserted fort, a relic from the French occupation. The saddle no longer looked like an interesting historical relic but an instrument of torture. By the 1840s, however, there was growing interest in antiques, and this bowl may well have been given to the church as a historical relic. The doctors who were tending to the Pope during his final hours are auctioning off a sample of the Pope's blood as a holy relic. The house was a relic of Florida construction from the 1920s, a small wood-frame building raised on short concrete pilings. The holy relic is believed to protect the 25 sq. km. former Portuguese colony, on the doorstep of China, from natural disasters. It was only natural for him to attend Terra's highly elite West Point Military Academy, a surviving relic of Terran history dating from the mid nineteenth century Old Era. An elementary particle in the presence of one of these relic fields would then experience interactions that have a preferred direction in space-time. Prejudice against beards is a relic of an age when beards seemed shifty. On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages. The product may vary from a homogeneous rock produced by soaking to a coarsely mixed rock easily separable into relic and granitic or granitised portions. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past. And then Further is gone, back on the road, like a time-traveling relic from another era or an apparition of Jerry Garcia. Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance. The owner of the whare had taken possession of von Tempsky's sword, which was preserved as a sacred relic, a taumahatanga, or offering to the gods. Indeed, there is a relic in the historical museum of the University of Lund which is said to be a piece of the tree under which the Holy Family rested on their famous journey. I hope also to show that perennial philosophy is not an historical relic, a cast-off from an alien time, fit only for the cramped exegesis of modern historians of ideas. But in election year 2004, the film views like a historical relic. What is so important about her is that even at the age of 92, she is no relic of the early twentieth century but continues to be a prolific commentator on her world. In Scotland, however, the old code remained legal and came to be viewed simultaneously as a relic of outmoded ways of life and as a sign of modernity. Show More Sentences In addition, the shell of the outer part forms a two-dimensionally latticed sphere with or without a relic of three-dimensional meshwork structure. People often say painting died in the modern world, that the age of mechanical reproduction made it a relic, of value only to conservative fetishists of fine art. Evidently they still had a whole labyrinth of corridors and antechambers to negotiate before they reached the forgotten chamber with its prized relic. The meadow, which until recently was a magnificent relic of ancient pasture, is now approaching the usual nitrogenous-fertiliser-fed ley so common anywhere. The explorers found the relic that comprised of engravings on a large rock when they were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan Desert. The years of Sunday Night and big starry entertainment line-ups are over, and even the Royal Variety Show seems like a dusty relic of a different age. We have just passed through the witching hour that is Hallowe'en, relic of a medieval past when ghosts and spirits were thought to stalk the land on All Hallow's Eve. Her popularity is up, her guard is down, and her image as a shrew is a relic of the past. It is now regarded as the nation's most complete Cold War relic, and three years ago was given the same protection as Stonehenge as a scheduled monument. After the ritual blessing, the relic was replaced in its casket. Those who made a pilgrimage to pray to the relic were given a 10-year indulgence. Now this relic may have been the Mayan ruin it was purported to be. A comprehensive scan will create an electronic image of the virtual relic which can be shared and analysed in minute detail by experts around the world. The screeching vehicle left tire tracks on the architectural relic, which dates back to the Ming Dynasty. How on earth does the party hope to persuade voters it is not an apartheid relic when a third of its sitting MPs still have names harking back to the Verwoerdian era? For this apparently new and shiny one-state bauble is in fact a prudently discarded historical relic. Looking back, I suppose it was a relic from a bygone age even then. The church was closed due to bad weather when the relic, along with a golden cross, was taken. At least half a million Cambodians participated in a religious ceremony Thursday to relocate a Buddhist relic from Phnom Penh to a nearby mountain. Every January 1, the priest would lead a procession with the relic and its 18th-century reliquary. Show More Sentences A museum in its Shunde headquarters displays a few plastic bottle caps along with a small, rusting electric fan that looks like a relic from the bottom of the sea. His paternal authority is a relic of his younger and stronger days. But, sooner or later, this Cold War relic will be cast aside. The great state of Alabama believes that preclearance is a relic of the past. The abbey became a popular place of pilgrimage for St Fergus, whose skull the Abbots kept as a relic in a silver casket by the atlar. In a powerful prayer activity, students are given a saints relic to hold as Angie instructs them to pray for that saints intersession. We were was stopped in our tracks by what looked like a prehistoric relic keeking through the bracken. One group thinks zoos are a relic of a primitive past and should be closed, or at least turned into nature preserves. Today, people in the developed world view yellow fever as a relic of the past. The bishop will also often present a small relic of a saint to place in or on the altar as part of the consecration of a new church. In addition, there is also a relic of the heritage include Great Mosque of Banten Lama, Makam Keramat Lama, and many other relics. Looters illegally obtain artifacts or antiquities whereas relic hunters obtain them legally but unscientifically. Catalan in particular almost completely eliminated the second conjugation ending over time, reducing it to a small relic class. In 1560 Mary Queen of Scots had Margaret's head removed to Edinburgh Castle as a relic to assist her in childbirth. This Semitic origin may be a relic of the Phoenician traders who sailed to Britain from the Mediterranean as part of the ancient tin trade. But in his second online thriller The Glorious Twelfth, Calder twists Brown's plot to suggest the holy relic is buried elsewhere in Scotland. The truncated relic is both a dismembered and disremembered remnant of its former self. If it is not transmitted, then it is no longer folklore and becomes instead an historic relic. For most people, hostile takeovers, junk bonds and ESOP leveraged buyouts seem largely a relic of another age. There he learned the Roman method of calculating the date of Easter, and studied the Roman practice of relic collecting. Show More Sentences The cathedral is also home to the relic of Saint Richard Gwyn, Wrexham's patron saint. This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument. Cover of Gospel book with relic of Holy Cross made of Silver, gildened with enamel rosettas. This familial relic may be rich with meaning, but when it comes to objects, Mr. Demand is not an investor but a divester. The first structural relic of prehistoric man was excavated in 1973 at Cefn Glas near the watershed of the Rhondda Fach river. In fact, apart from its Georgian cousin dialect, Mingrelian, it seems to be a unique relic of antiquity. Why yes, it's the gentle coelacanth, nocturnal bottom-feeder and relic of the Cretaceous period. The distinct turban that differentiates a Sikh from other turban wearers is a relic of the rules of the British Indian Army. Kourkouas was especially celebrated for returning to Constantinople the venerated Mandylion, a relic purportedly imprinted with a portrait of Christ. A relic, said to be her hand, is housed in the Bar Convent in York. Led by a fanfare of pipes and bugles, monks buckle under the weight of the rolled-up 45m Thangka tapestry, with crowds clamouring to touch the 18th century holy relic. Anyway, Sis, I was in need of one more corner post, and I remembered seeing an old railroad tie across the field, a relic from a long-gone horse corral. The best known relic associated with Offa's time is Offa's Dyke, a great earthen barrier that runs approximately along the border between England and Wales. However, they can be discovered by compressed electroweakino searches at a 100 TeV collider, completing the full coverage of the relic neutralino surface. Currently, three million tourists per year, mostly Korean, flock to the DMZ, to witness the relic of cold war confrontation, not to mention copious amounts of barbed wire. A wooden flaggon, called a meather or mether, implying acid drink, is still to be found in this country, and is considered a relic of high antiquity and veneration. The very size of All Saints meant that it was probably a place of pilgrimage for centuries, housing a relic or statue of a saint that has since disappeared. Examples from Classical Literature I realize perfectly that all this sounds like tommyrot, and that superstition may be a relic of barbarism and ignorance. I found it in this cell, after the death of the martyr, and have preserved it as a relic. Enclosed in this huge labyrinth of brickwork is the relic of which I spoke. A near neighbour of Vincennes is Conflans, another poor, rent relic of monarchial majesty. His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them. But if there had ever been one, it had decayed or been removed by some vandal as a relic. But, after all, this is an old-fashioned method, and the rhinoceros is a relic. Of all his splendour, the only relic left is the water gate usually ascribed to Inigo Jones. Mr. Sander of St. Albans preserves an interesting relic, the only one as yet connected with the science of orchidology. It is worthy of remark that all paradigmatic inflection in a civilized tongue is a relic of its barbaric condition. The phial and lid were lying separate, and Page 126 there was no sign of a relic. It was the last relic of the old port of Caesarea, famous since the time of Augustus. The chief reason why debt was supplanted for centuries by a later remedy, assumpsit, was the survival of this relic of early days. By the end of the Punic Wars it was an impotent relic of a vanquished popular control. This appears to be a relic of the ancient Welsh game of quintain, or gwyntyn. One of these stories may be a relic of race memory, dating back to the dawn of the race in Africa. It is expounded in the Sankhya Karika, an important relic of bold rationalistic Indian thought. In Athens on the Areopagus there is to this day a relic of antiquity with a mud roof. The Eiffel Tower was not a gigantic monstrosity, a relic of the Exposition. Fran von Goethe noticed with evident pleasure our eager interest in her surroundings, and showed us many a relic. Show More Sentences As this is usually a twisted iron rod, there can be little doubt that the Chesterlees relic was a funicular torc. But the guarder of the relic only seemed to turn his head by the smallest section of the compass. I brought out my relic of other days, and displayed it to the boys in the shanty. Mr. skee was an interesting relic of that stormy past of the once Wild West which has left so few surviving. To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions. On one of the windows of the church, there is a fine old bronze bell that exists as a relic of culdee times. The most interesting relic, however, is the market cross, which originally belonged to the extinct town of Kincardine. There are other countries where this relic of the barbaric ages doesn't exist. At the latter she obtained admission to the temple of dagoba, which contains a precious relic of Buddha, namely, one of his teeth. The lid of the poor box he still preserves as a relic of the adventure. The criminal is an atavistic being, a relic of a vanished race. Its front gate, I noted, was a centuried relic from a distant shrine. If Croydon Palace were rightly restored, how fine a relic it might be! The iron bars were a relic of the old regime, and no one had ever thought of dislodging them. Four or five years ago, some workmen who were digging foundations for a house came upon this interesting relic of a long-departed age. Leaving that melancholy relic of carnivorous appetite, it turned its bold gold gaze on Nicolete. It was the submissive worship of a devotee before some sacred relic! No doubt all these sari stones really contain some such relic. I want to take you first to see a remarkable relic of Mercia, and then we'll go to Liverpool through what is called 'The Great Vale of Cheshire. It became a tapu relic, and was religiously preserved by the Hauhaus. Show More Sentences Like teotihuacan and Tulla, this is regarded as a relic of Toltec times. This custom, a relic of the Turanian religion, is the origin of sorcery. Possibly the holy water in D 17, G 32, is a relic of the water-bath. The mistresses of the present princes are a relic of polygamy. It is very difficult to affix a date to any relic of that dim past. This like some holy relic do I prize To save me from the fate my truth entails, Truth that to thy hard heart its vigour owes. Mere prudery, affectation, and a relic of the dark ages of the Zenana. Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of relic? Words that rhyme with relic What is the plural of relic? What is the adverb for relic? What is the adjective for relic? What is the noun for relic? Translations for relic Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words reliant reliance reliably reliable source reliable|source reliables relicense relicensing relics relict relicts relied 5-letter Words Starting With r re rel reli