How to Use relic in a Sentence

relic

noun
  • The dress is not the first relic from the movie to go missing.
    — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The chapel was meant to house relics of the martyrs and apostles, Rossi said.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The two components present in Cannes are the relics of that great project.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The relics will be displayed on a table in the center aisle near the altar.
    — Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2023
  • These games see pixel art as more than a relic of the past.
    — Aidan Moher, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • But these relics are now at risk as the city continues to grow.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • Embellished with gold mining relics, the wine cave gives a nod to the era.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • Most of the relics are tiny fragments of bones, flesh or hair from the different saints.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024
  • This year, the penny is on its way to be as much of a relic as the half-cent, abolished in 1857.
    — Michael Barclay, Quartz, 22 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • An early 2010s shot of Frank Ocean that feels like a relic.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The current tariff gap is a relic of that old trade regime.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
  • By the turn of the 21st century, this ideal was a relic.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were World War II relics such as medic bags, a field telephone and helmets.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The flag was described by the Lexington as the relic of a kamikaze pilot.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the cast-off relics are products of the information age.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Now the region’s toll collectors are a relic of the past.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
  • 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
  • Through the renovation process, many old relics were found in the walls and attic.
    — Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar, 10 July 2025
  • Tuesday’s in-person auction was expected to last all day as the J. Sugarman Auction Corp. led some 200 bidders and spectators through a plodding tour of the show’s mostly pedestrian relics.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025

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