Sentence examples for for a relic from inspiring English sources

Up in abandoned rooms, Felicella searched in vain for a relic.

Preserved in a handsome glass case, you might take it for a relic.

To mark the occasion, Omar called for a relic from the days of early Islam that had made its way to Afghanistan: the Prophet Muhammad's cloak.

With several thousand tools for sale in Mr. Dowd's backyard — some from the late 1700s — there's a good chance of paying $2 for a relic that's valued at $200.

And a 17th-century Baroque reliquary, all silver, gilt and enamel, on loan from the Vatican, is basically little more than a staggeringly ornate frame for a relic that isn't a relic at all but a painted copy of a celebrated miraculous portrait of Jesus, already centuries old when the copy was made.

(White elephants, perhaps?) Nearby, someone had scrawled "heavy duty" in the dust coating a large Caterpillar, which could have passed for a relic from the nineteen-seventies, the last time the city's sandhogs were excavating the so-called Line That Time Forgot.

Ugly George's story is not a positive one, as, despite being a part of cable's massive growth in the '80s, he never made much money doing what he did, and in the age of the Internet, he's a bit of a relic, battling for attention with incredibly easy access to much more explicit porn.

Mr. Möller, who has written extensively on Japanese cinema, chided him for becoming "a relic from another era stubbornly refusing to retire, and, worst of all, a sellout".

The Last Judgement was an especially appropriate subject for setting a relic from the Crown of Thorns.

Fanboys will exalt the "escapism" of Bond movies, but it's hard to root for such a relic.

These communes passed because of the Great Depression and were subsequently discouraged by the communist government for being a relic of feudal China.