How to Use vestigial in a Sentence

vestigial

adjective

• Well, no one in the vestigial rear seats will be having a good time.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 8 Feb. 2021
• The adults have vestigial mouthparts and cannot feed, and only live about a couple of weeks.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023
• The daffy has hot-dog roots but enough vestigial cred to induce a new-schooler to tip his trucker hat.
  — Nick Paumgarten, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• The events in Essos could feel like a vestigial tail even in the show's best years, and Pentos lacks the texture of Winterfell.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• The king cab rear seat might best be described as vestigial, as if something larger used to be there.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2021
• Adults have vestigial mouth parts and cannot feed, so flowers won’t attract them.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2023
• And then society moves on, and certain things start to feel vestigial.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2018
• On the shin is a mini extension that curves upward like a thorny vestigial tail.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
• Abelisaurids have stocky hind limbs, and like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, have stubby, vestigial forelimbs.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2022
• By the time he was extradited, Guzman was a vestigial bone on the body narco—no longer necessary, in the way.
  — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 15 Feb. 2017
• Their siren-like cry — a harsh rising note that chills the vestigial part of the mammalian brain that remembers living in burrows — echoed off the stone buildings.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• The researchers also picked up a shortarse feelerfish, which has short, spindly fins and small vestigial eyes.
  — Megan Gannon, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Later, the attacking cells were shown to come from the thymus, a small, spongy organ, then thought to be vestigial, that straddled the esophagus.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• But the sidewinding rattlesnake, which comes from a different branch of the viper family tree, still has a few vestigial belly spikes as well as pits.
  — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
• All three theropods had beaks but with vestigial, or functionless, tooth sockets.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• Less promoted but nonetheless implicit was the end of a way of a life, albeit a vestigial one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Turn the vestigial key nub to the left of the steering wheel, and the GTS coupe settles into a deep rumble that transitions to a tempered growl in casual driving.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 30 June 2020
• And the TWA Hotel still conveys that dormant, vestigial longing for better things.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
• Many of us learned in school that this tiny, fingerlike projection off the colon is a useless, vestigial remnant of our evolution, much like the puny leg bones found in some snakes.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2019
• The vestigial hips on my whale point back to her evolutionary ancestors.
  — Peter Wayne Moe, Longreads, 25 Feb. 2022
• Look up at the rear view mirror and the view rearward is roughly comparable to looking through a mail slot but with rear headrests blocking even much of that vestigial view.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2023
• Even the showy grille and the vestigial spare-tire hump seem surprisingly appropriate.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
• So are any human body parts truly useless or vestigial?
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2019
• But compared to its carbon-intensive forebears, like the i3 and i8 hybrid, the iX’s carbon-y bits seem almost vestigial.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Oftentimes, those collections can feel a bit vestigial—like a way for designers to just make a quick buck by churning out the same stuff in extra fabric, and not much more.
  — Sam Schube, GQ, 15 June 2018
• Lambert says that these tiny limbs had no real function—also known as vestigial organs.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• Tip of the cap While extra lives have been a vestigial concept in Mario games for years, Odyssey cements its distinctiveness in the series by doing away with the 1-up mushroom entirely.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017
• And rear hatches become vestigial doors that lead to the secondary bulletproof rear bulkhead inside.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 6 Oct. 2020
• Couture may be the vestigial tail of fashion, but that is an entirely contemporary idea.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• The persistence of these broad categories is partly a vestigial constraint from a time when paper surveys dominated.
  — Juan Carlos Gonzalez Jr., STAT, 19 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024