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

The schedule lightens significantly, however, as their opponents the rest of the way have a .462 winning percentage, which would be the easiest remaining schedule in baseball. —Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 May 2025

After a three-sack outing in the 2023 opener at Pittsburgh, Jackson had no sacks in his seven remaining games with the 49ers and eventually had surgery before that team’s postseason run to the Super Bowl. —Cam Inman, Mercury News, 9 May 2025

Go over the areas with a dry cloth to remove any remaining residue. —Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2025

Critical roles are eliminated, institutional knowledge is lost and remaining employees become disengaged, overworked and less productive. —Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 9 Mar. 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