Remainder

//ɹɪˈmeɪndə//

"Remainder" in a Sentence (20 examples)

He was excused from the remainder of the work.

The only thing he did before he briskly went on ahead was give us a map. The remainder of us could only rely on the map to figure out where to go.

The remainder of his sentence was drowned out by the sudden noise.

Five divided by three equals one and a remainder of two.

Tom spent the remainder of the night thinking about Mary.

There they perform stabilizing surgery and treat critical injuries, so that patients can be moved to a hospital with capacity for the remainder of their treatment.

They cut the fins and tossed back the remainder of the living shark in the ocean.

And indeed, not only upon that day but during the remainder of their lives, did Daphnis and Chloe lead a pastoral life, gathering together large herds and flocks, paying especial worship to the Nymphs, to Pan, and to the God of Love, and finding no food more delicious than the fruits of autumn, and the milk of their flocks.

Sami will spend the remainder of his life in jail.

Modular division solves for the remainder, not the quotient.

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My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.

You can have the remainder of my clothes.

He spent the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp.

When the clocks are put forward at the introduction of summer time, the long-distance night trains automatically become one hour late, and continue to run late for the remainder of their journeys. […] Similarly, when the clocks are put back in the autumn, the night trains become one hour early.

Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

10 minus 4 leaves a remainder of 6

I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.

The bookstore remaindered the unsold copies of that book at the end of summer.

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