How to Use relic in a Sentence

relic

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• There must be more to these angsty little etiquette relics.
  — Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2023
• The show is a relic, as cheaply gilded as the gaudy statues the HFPA hands out.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Each relic box contained three relics from saints from over 1500 years ago.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 8 Jan. 2023
• Of course, the truth is that rather than being a useless relic, the core work of the humanities is the cure for what ails us.
  — Jim Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
• And isn’t that an older woman who is, like, an old relic?
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023
• One way to look at this 2005 letter is as a relic of a very different time.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
• Early relic hunters scavenged the area for bits of Skylab.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• Because the Casino and Old Tom Gin complete each other, two dusty old relics brushed off and teamed up to make one hell of a drink.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2023
• Inside was a relic and a challenge — the bones of an old ship, barely visible in the dim light.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023
• Museums in Europe are filled with the jeweled relics of kings and queens, the supreme headgear of monarchy.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• From a 2023 vantage point, the entire program might seem like a relic of a bygone age.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2023
• Eventually, even those that survived came to be viewed as little more than relics from the moral panics of the past.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• The mid-budget movie was already becoming a relic at that point.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• But is there a relic in this movie that possesses a kind of power, or may possess a kind of power?
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• Here are such venerable relics as frieze-blocks from the Parthenon, reproduced in blotchy, pulpy pink.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• The rise of disco and punk made Bacharach’s elegant song-craft feel like a relic from another time.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2023
• But the KC-135s are, in several ways, relics of a bygone era of analog aviation.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 26 July 2023
• The postgame prize is a relic from the 2021 championship team that has since morphed into a team ritual.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2023
• Jered will guide everyone through the process of making pottery on the wheel and will then fire and glaze your two favorite pieces as lasting relics of your love.
  — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• Stacy and Margaret turn to a third lookalike, Fiona, for help to retrieve a priceless Christmas relic that's been stolen from the palace.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 6 Jan. 2023
• For thousands, Gil Thorp is but a crew cut memory, a relic of our bygone youth.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
• The relics are a dark reminder of how the body parts of indigenous people were swapped and sold in a grisly, exploitative trade, not just in Germany, but around the world.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
• When the monastery takes possession of a precious relic, a large carving of Christ on the cross, the new boy encounters Jesus for the first time and is transfixed.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024