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Definition of Remain

  • 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.
  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  • To await; to be left to.
  • That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
  • The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
  • stay the same; remain in a certain state
  • be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc.
  • continue in a place, position, or situation
  • stay behind

How to use remain in a sentence. Remain pronunciation.

Remains to say that thy one letter did our hearts good.
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Yet I would buy thee to remain here-here at my court; here by my hand which will give thee the labour thou lovest, and will defend thee if defence be needed.
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We are strangers, and we must remain so.
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And the camel-drivers are forgotten; but the cross-roads remain, and the food and the drink and the medicine and the cattle helped each caravan upon the way.
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This fact had driven him to an act of redemption unparalleled in its intensity and scope; but he could not tell-and this was the thought that shook his being-how far this act itself, inspiring him to a dangerous and immense work in life, would sap the best that was in him, since it must remain a secret crime, for which he could not openly atone.
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If thee will not take Nahoum again into service to aid me, I must not remain.
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Now only remains what thou shalt do for Egypt-" "And thou-thou wilt be left here to lay thy will upon Egypt.
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To-morrow he, Achmet, must go into the desert with the army, and this hated Inglesi would remain behind to have his will with Kaid.
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Membership rates remain fixed at $2.50 per year in the United States and Canada, and $2.75 in Great Britain and the continent.
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Dirt and vermin-but let us forget those features; their profusion is simply inconceivable-it is better that they remain so.
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Your sons may make free to take their pleasure among the wives of the heathen; it only remains to be proved whether the heathen husbands will be trifled with or not.
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The two friends had not long to remain in ignorance of their visitor's purpose.
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The Alexandrian understood; he drew back and was silent, while Hilarion explained to the sick man that Paulus was guilty of grave sins, and that, until he had done full penance, he must remain excluded as a rotten sheep from the bishop's flock, as well as interdicted from waiting on a pious Christian.
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Having secured their "paying guest," they hoped she would remain with them for a year or two at least.
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Many hold the most extreme views, views that would shock a typical Anglo-Saxon out of his complacency; but they remain harmless and gentle theorists.
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But whatever the reason, the precious manuscript was forever lost; and the second part of the work remains sadly incomplete, partly written up from rough notes left by the author, Partly supplied by another hand.
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This is where the novel "Fathers and Children" rises above a picture of Russian politics in the sixties, and remains forever an immortal work of art.
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It is remarkable, too, how clearly the reader sees the heart of the man, so obscure to himself; and how evident it is that in the very midst of his passion for Irina, his love for Tanya remains.
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We ought to conceal nothing from children under the pretext that they are little and that at their age they should remain ignorant of certain things.
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The religious sentiment, in its essence, can never be crushed by reasoning, by a sin, by a crime, by any form of atheism; there is something there which remains and always will remain beyond all that, something which the arguments of atheists will never touch.
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Examples of Remain

Example #1
My father reads it over and over, and shakes his head sadly, for, truth is, he has a fear that the world may lay its hand upon thee.
Example #2
And now, David, I have told thee all, nearly.
Example #3
Kaid has never besought men, but he beseeches thee.
Example #4
Is not truth cheaper than falsehood?
Example #5
Thee will go from here now, and we must not meet again.
Example #6
I could not turn back now.

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