Sentence examples for tiny relic from inspiring English sources

B3 Neediest Cases B3 ARTS E1-14 HOUSE & HOME F1-18 SPORTS D1-8 SCIENCE/HEALTinyiny Relic of Ancient Earth Scientists say a grain-sized crystal from western Australia is the oldest piece of Earth yet identified and may lead to a rethinking of theories on when life appeared on the planet, as well as the origin of the Moon.

I don't remember if my first console was a gift or something I decided to invest in myself, but the long and the short of it is that in 2009 I sat cross-legged on the floor of my bedroom before a tiny relic television borrowed from a friend, and flicked the power button on my own N64.

The agency also said recently that within the next two years it expected to start phasing out tokens, which have served as tiny relics of the true New York since the first ones were minted in 1953.

A tiny ancient relic can cause havoc: tree stumps and pipes, buried decades ago in an earthen levee's innards, can rot or rust, undermining the structure with no outward sign of trouble.

A14 A New Flag in Georgia The State House of Representatives redesigned the state flag, reducing its big Confederate cross to a tiny historical relic at the bottom of the banner, with other previous designs.

She has Harry Macklowe by the short hairs because the final piece of the puzzle at his blockbuster on Second Avenue and 53rd Street happened to be a tiny tinderbox relic built in 1866: "I appealed to his conscience -- and his sense of public relations," she says, chuckling about her strategy.

Occasional relics of tiny hamlets, or clachans, show that peasant crofts once were huddled together and worked by kinship groups in an open-field system.

The most precious of the old church's possessions -- relics, or tiny bone fragments, of St. Nicholas, St. Catherine and St. Sava -- were never recovered.

One of the church relics is a tiny fleck of white bone of St. Anthony of Padua.

Off to one side the tiny little steam train, an immobile relic of the town's past as a mining concern: Kings Bay, the company which now provides all the research infrastructure (and which organised the symposium) was then the Kings Bay Mining Company.

The entire drive from Denver was one of astonishment at the creeping rush of development; tiny mining towns that were crumbling relics were now sprawling tourist meccas, with seas of burger joints and apartment blocks beside every off-ramp.