Word Finder - remained

definition

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

definition

To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.

example

There was no food in the house, so I had to remain hungry.

definition

To await; to be left to.

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To continue in a state of being.

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The light remained red for two full minutes.

The car remained solidly in place.

Carmen sat down, but Alex remained standing.

Natasha, pleading a headache, remained at home.

She tried to turn it away, but it remained on course.

For the remainder of the trip to the ranch, Alex remained in a good mood.

He closed his eyes and remained silent a long time.

He remained silent, looking into her eyes.

Laura always remained an object of curious study.

My mind remained locked on our weekend activities, labeling all other daily happenings insignificant.

One of the footmen who had stooped to pick up some broken glass remained in that position without taking his eyes from the window and from Dolokhov's back.

Only those things he always kept with him remained in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber--a present from his father who had brought it from the siege of Ochakov.

I remained at the front.

Only this time the path remained clear.

She remained by the bed, tears seeping down her cheeks.

The Guards had already left Petersburg on the tenth of August, and her son, who had remained in Moscow for his equipment, was to join them on the march to Radzivilov.

Natasha checked her first impulse to run out to her, and remained in her hiding place, watching--as under an invisible cap--to see what went on in the world.

After his dismissal from headquarters Zherkov had not remained in the regiment, saying he was not such a fool as to slave at the front when he could get more rewards by doing nothing on the staff, and had succeeded in attaching himself as an orderly officer to Prince Bagration.

When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin.

There he remained about ten minutes.

Alpatych also knew that on the previous day another peasant had even brought from the village of Visloukhovo, which was occupied by the French, a proclamation by a French general that no harm would be done to the inhabitants, and if they remained they would be paid for anything taken from them.

But on hearing the order Dron lowered his eyes and remained silent.

For herself she did not care where she remained or what happened to her, but she felt herself the representative of her dead father and of Prince Andrew.

And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.

For the last three days Bogucharovo had lain between the two hostile armies, so that it was as easy for the Russian rearguard to get to it as for the French vanguard; Rostov, as a careful squadron commander, wished to take such provisions as remained at Bogucharovo before the French could get them.

Carmen remained quiet for a few minutes, allowing him to think about it.

His gaze remained sober.

While I preferred not to toss a wet blanket on her quest, I remained far more pragmatic.

Store fronts interspersed with vacant lots lined one side of the street while the other remained absent of any buildings except a closed gas station and a dollar store.

Perhaps enough of the euphoria of the prior day's success remained that, surprisingly, a reluctant agreement was reached.

Finding the most effective sources remained less than satisfactory.

He recited a meticulous inventory of everything in the bedroom quarters, including the page number of a book his wife was reading as she remained in bed.

Howie remained obsessed that he'd failed to nail the culprit and when he heard of this later case, he begged Quinn to take enough time away from his wife and new daughter for a single session.

Quinn returned to the hospital but Betsy and I remained at Howie's side in the pitch dark room.

The girl remained unconscious as the man drove away.

When he returned he remained standing.

There was nothing she could do for Talia, nothing that remained of the immortal world.

Then he remained silent for a while, and all at once looked cheerfully with his glittering, black eyes at Rostov.

Denisov remained silent and did not move, but occasionally looked with his glittering black eyes at Rostov.

The staff officer remained behind and Prince Andrew rode on alone.

But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before.

Five minutes later no one remained in the street.

Having repeated her order to Dron to have horses ready for her departure next morning, she went to her room and remained alone with her own thoughts.

Whatever the issue was, the conflict between Alex and Dulce remained.

I savored it, but my concern for Howie remained.

Howie bounded out of the car and crossed to the newer side of the street where he had a better view of the few older buildings that remained.

The toys they were both playing with remained.

Jude remained incarcerated but Owen, facing a lesser charge, was released on bail.

That's how long my little prize remained with me until my darling succumbed to the trials and tribulations of life on the road, with me.

As the others remained behind the closed door of the conference room, I went out to lunch on my own.

She remained standing and began to pace about the room.