Sentences with 'relic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word relic and other words derived from it.
• « Every church had to have a relic on its altar (contained in a special box called a reliquary) or it was not considered to be truly holy ground. »
• « Yes, a thriving relic trade (riddled with forgeries - it was not easy to determine whether a given finger bone was really St Mark's finger bone!) developed in Europe as rival church leaders tried to get the most powerful relic for their church. »
• « The city of Berlin was in East Germany, but its western 'zones' remained in the hands of the United States, Britain and France, a strange relic of the immediate post-war situation. »
• « This true living relic is living its existence, unchanging, at a depth of several thousand metres, unaware of Darwin and his laws of evolution, and will probably still be around when there will be no one left to remember the astonishment of its discovery. »