Sentences with 'remnant'
Example sentences and phrases with the word remnant and other words derived from it.
• « To emphasise the point: The Christian knights of Western Europe set out to attack the Muslim kingdoms of the Middle East but ended up conquering a Christian kingdom, and the last political remnant of the Roman Empire in its place. »
• « Because Russia had adopted the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity centuries earlier, and because Constantinople (and the last remnant of today's Roman Empire) fell to the Turks in 1453, Russian rulers after Ivan IV claimed to be the true heirs to the political power of the ancient Roman emperors. »
• « The Austrian Empire was replaced by new independent nations, and Austria itself was reduced to a "minority state" - the remnant of its former imperial glory. »