remaining

adjective

re·​main·​ing ri-ˈmā-niŋ 

: left over after a part has been destroyed, taken, used, or lost

Dough should not stick to sides of bowl; if it does, add some or all of remaining 2 tablespoons of bread flour until dough cleans sides of bowl.

—Tish Boyle

"You're good people," Kugelmass said, combing his few remaining hairs as he climbed into the cabinet again.

—Woody Allen

The researchers, focusing on distinct oral languages, not dialects, interviewed and made recordings of the few remaining speakers of a language and collected basic word lists.

—John Noble Wilford

Examples of remaining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Brush tops evenly with remaining garlic-butter mixture. —Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025

Sure enough, a four-year, $104 million offer convinced one of the last remaining blue-chip talents to New England. —Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025

Repeat with remaining dough portions, greasing skillet with remaining 1 Tbsp. —Erin Hooker, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025

Almost overnight, the entire remaining Armenian population there fled. —Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for remaining

• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining
• obtaining