Word Finder - remaining

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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.

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

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

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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.

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An act or occurrence by which someone or something remains

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Remnant.

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Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.

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May I have the only remaining cake?

The remaining creature turned to them.

Was there anything remaining of her memory that might help Gabriel?

Where the children were concerned, she had no intention of remaining silent.

Dean finished dismantling the tree, cleaning up the remaining detritus of the holidays and packing away the delicate figures of a manger scene.

With this speech he bent forward and dragged the buggy up the remaining steps.

The remaining vacation slipped by quickly and life returned to normal.

Nothing could be gained by remaining still.

Dean took a seat and joined her, part politeness, part to guard the remaining slice.

You don't stay where it is safe, and you're the only remaining dhjan.

She spooned up the remaining flakes of cereal one at a time, swishing them around in her spoon.

We spent our remaining time in New Hampshire with no mention of his visions.

I think you're remaining here is a fine idea.

Dusty took her hand, his other pulling his remaining knife free.

It looked untouched, but a quick search revealed the only weapons remaining were those she'd taken when she left her room, and the beacon was gone.

The mouth of the hole was nearly filled up now, but the kitten gave a leap through the remaining opening and at once scampered up into the air.

Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife's property, and having received a small inheritance on the death of a cousin he paid his debt to Pierre as well.

He left the library and Traveled to one of the remaining, undiscovered safe houses at the base of one of the mountains.

Was the oldest … deity remaining.

They would be there tomorrow night, so there was no point in making the remaining vacation time unpleasant.

Howie continued to look to us for direction while remaining adamant we exclude so much as mention of what we were doing to anyone outside our group.

We stole one weekend together, remaining in New York, before answering a summons to join the others in Massachusetts.

What had started as a stream of blood had slowed to a few remaining drops.

She pointed to the few remaining breakfast dishes.

Her gaze lingered on the remaining half a funnel cake.

Hind foot long and narrow, mainly composed of the strongly developed fourth toe, terminating in a conical pointed nail, with a strong pad behind it; the first toe represented by a rudimentary metatarsal; the remaining toes completely developed, with claws, but exceedingly slender; the united second and third reaching a little way beyond the metatarso-phalangeal articulation of the fourth; the fifth somewhat shorter.

That makes us all de facto millionaires, and very committed to remaining so.

Soon, however, the remaining beans will be too tough for them, and go forward to meet new foes.

But besides this, even if, admitting the remaining minimum of freedom to equal zero, we assumed in some given case--as for instance in that of a dying man, an unborn babe, or an idiot--complete absence of freedom, by so doing we should destroy the very conception of man in the case we are examining, for as soon as there is no freedom there is also no man.

At the far end of the loop, they passed the few remaining structures of the abandoned town of Ironton; empty, ghost-like buildings.

By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.

Corday nodded to the others who slowly left the room until he and Fitzgerald were the only two officers remaining.

Bird Song was as quiet as an empty church with none of the remaining guests in evidence, nor was there any sign the police had returned.

He pushed the door further but hesitated entering, as if remaining outside would absolve him of responsibility from what lay beyond.

Dean rummaged about in the snow among the remaining climbing articles but the leather apparatus he untangled was far too small for his waist.

He led the remaining man to Sarah.

Four of the music cabinets housed Jackson's works, the remaining two held other composers' music.

The remaining two sat in front of the fire drinking port.

The werewolf either slipped through or broke the remaining chains.

In the few hours remaining before his departure, her head was so far in the clouds that she didn't even notice he said nothing about marriage.

It looks like he was attempting to arm the remaining weapons systems in the East.

Brady strode from the private room into a common area, where two of his four remaining men waited.

After a long hour, she found one of the remaining sixteen Horsemen.

If Arnie smuggled one out of the command center, he may have the remaining keys in his quarters.

Dan ignored his warning and snagged two pieces of the precious few he had remaining.

The adversaries were regrouping, with one barking orders to those remaining.

Brady rested his laser gun on his shoulder, taking in the undisturbed minefield and pieces of bodies remaining after several of the intruders tried to cross the bio-elim field before it was disabled.

Brady asked the remaining soldier.

Rhyn focused the little bit of magic he had remaining on the wood.  Fire sprang up.  With it, Rhyn felt a stitch of the seam binding his power snap.

He ascended two floors to the hallway where Kris's supplies had been stocked.  He recalled how hard it could be taking care of a helpless creature like Katie or Toby.  He strode to the chamber that had served as a department store full of clothing to Kris's Immortals.  Not surprised to find the chamber ransacked, he sifted through the remaining clothing on the floor.  He guessed Toby's size and stuffed a bag with a few items before going to the food supplies.

Parkside was leading seven-zip with one inning remaining.