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

Please continue to heed remaining road closures. —Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 Nov. 2025

Al-Sharaa will be hoping to emerge strengthened domestically, and key to that effort is his bid to remove remaining sanctions imposed on Syria during Assad’s rule. —Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2025

The last remaining closed runway reopens that evening at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. —Monroe Trombly, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Nov. 2025

There have been multiple reports confirming the two will keep their royal titles, remaining princesses, and will still be styled as Her Royal Highness. —Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 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