How to Use relic in a Sentence
relic
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The dress is not the first relic from the movie to go missing.
—NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
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The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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The two components present in Cannes are the relics of that great project.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024
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And the relics of the city are still there: the grid system, road system, the old houses, the churches.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
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The resort is filled with one-of-a-kind relics from the owners' travels around the world.
—Gabrielle Nicole Pharms, Travel + Leisure, 1 Jan. 2025
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The first craft/relic event was a lot busier than I was used to, a much larger scale.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
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First, there’s the marble lectern—a relic of a Catholic church—which still serves as the host stand.
—Bebe Howorth, ELLE Decor, 31 July 2023
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The relics will be displayed on a table in the center aisle near the altar.
—Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
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These games see pixel art as more than a relic of the past.
—Aidan Moher, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
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And unlike most other relics from the past, they can all be made to breathe and run and live again.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2023
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But these relics are now at risk as the city continues to grow.
—Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
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The wide-leg baby-blue pants feel like both a relic from early-’90s L.A. and an omen from the L.A. of the future.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
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Most of the relics are tiny fragments of bones, flesh or hair from the different saints.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
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And so a lot of Tribes are still using blood quantum sort of as relics from that time.
—Abc News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
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Hera makes a call from an ancient relic from years past — a pay phone! — to a child of hers.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
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Two adult sons still live at home among the piles of books, relics and pictures of the Ballets Russes.
—Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
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An early 2010s shot of Frank Ocean that feels like a relic.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
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The current tariff gap is a relic of that old trade regime.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
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By the turn of the 21st century, this ideal was a relic.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
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This relic is one of the few for which Surak has something like a chain-of-custody record.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Easy to answer was the question of whether the femur known as the relic of St. James belonged to a St. James.
—Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
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There were World War II relics such as medic bags, a field telephone and helmets.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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The flag was described by the Lexington as the relic of a kamikaze pilot.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
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Some of the cast-off relics are products of the information age.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
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Now the region’s toll collectors are a relic of the past.
—Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
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The report details the state of the relics, which include her body, left arm and heart in Alba de Tormes.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Five years on, and what a five years, the show feels yet more like a relic from a previous era.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2022
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And Kam steals the relic from Gabby in what feels like five seconds.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2021
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The Madden chair, a relic installed in 1966, five years after the ski area opened, is surrounded by orange ropes with signs that read: closed.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
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No longer seen as disposable or a relic of a dying industry, these magazines are regarded as high-end products.
—Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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