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Synonyms & Antonyms for remain
Synonyms: Verb
abide, dwell, hang around, stay, stick around, tarry
Antonyms: Verb
bail, bail out, bug out, buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, exit, get off, go, go off, leave, move, pack (up or off), peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, shove (off), take off, vamoose, walk out
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Examples of remain in a Sentence
Verb
Little remained after the fire. Only two minutes still remain in the game. The question remains: who fired the shot? She remained in Boston after she finished college. The soldiers were ordered to remain at their posts. I remained behind after the class had ended. He remained with the team.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Connolly’s death remained in the public eye for 40 years, largely due to the dogged efforts of her mother. — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, "Oregon man arrested for teen’s murder in 41-year-old Anchorage cold case," 4 Sep. 2019 The suspect was arrested shortly after and remains in custody, say police. — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, "Mom Who Was Teaching Teen Son to Drive Is Killed in Front of Him During Road Rage Shooting," 3 Sep. 2019 Donnarumma remained sharp, and was able to adjust his feet before powering off to his right to make a spectacular stop. — SI.com, "7 of the Best Moments From Another Incredible Weekend of Serie A Football," 3 Sep. 2019 In Europe, German manufacturing activity remained close to July's seven-year low, as new orders fell, producers scaled back output, and job losses rose steeply. — CBS News, "Stock markets drop on news that U.S. manufacturing is shrinking," 3 Sep. 2019 But progress remains slow because, though the N.I.H. has now determined that the disease is biological, funding has yet to catch up. — Mike Mariani, The New Yorker, "A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue," 3 Sep. 2019 Hurst, testifying under a promise of immunity from federal prosecutors, remained calm through a long day of questioning. — Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal, "Defense lawyers try to paint consultant Hurst as the bad guy in Lundergan case," 3 Sep. 2019 For this farmer, now only one big customer remains. — Mary Bergin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A little-known heirloom pepper has its own festival in Beaver Dam, where it arrived in America long ago," 3 Sep. 2019 Subsequently, Hariji, Meharban’s son, remained in charge of the Harmandir for nearly five decades. — Sondeep Sankar, Quartz India, "In photos: A glorious history of Sikhism," 3 Sep. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Eleven female and nine male remains have been recovered thus far. — CBS News, "Coast Guard suspends search efforts for victims of California boat fire," 3 Sep. 2019 However, even such fragmentary remains often show distinct features that give enough information that paleontologists are able to identify the kind of dinosaur. — Hans-dieter Sues, Smithsonian, "How to Discover Dinosaurs," 3 Sep. 2019 The remains were covered by a road, and archaeologists have a narrow window to check out the site during a road widening and repaving project. — USA TODAY, "Space dummy, Bigfoot denial, pumped-up pumpkin: News from around our 50 states," 2 Sep. 2019 Aldaoud's remains were flown to Detroit on Friday for burial, according to a statement from Michigan Congressman Andy Levin. — Scottie Andrew And Laura Ly, CNN, "The body of an Iraqi man who died shortly after ICE deported him has returned to the US for burial," 1 Sep. 2019 These might conceivably have contained microbes or remains of microbes. — Robert Zubrin, National Review, "‘Tardigrades on the Moon Is Not Good’," 31 Aug. 2019 There have been a number of studies examining the remains recovered from the graves and their vicinity on Beechey Island, as well as from King William Island. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Fresh images of HMS Terror shipwreck could clear up lingering mysteries," 30 Aug. 2019 Yohannes Haile-Selassie, an anthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and a member of the international team that studied the remains, told reporters on Tuesday. — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, "This newfound 3.8-million-year-old skull called ‘iconic’ in human evolution," 29 Aug. 2019 Walter and Wanda are willing to have graves opened and the remains exhumed to discover who was buried and when. — USA Today, "The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia," 22 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'remain.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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