Without the vibration of life it was a sad relic.

Perhaps the saddest relics sit in another room in the Triborough Bridge site.

Gradually, he drinks himself into darkness, becoming a sad relic of the graceful, old, outworn India.

Deutsche Bank, designed by Kevin Roche (who completed the design of CBS after Saarinen's death), is a sad relic of postmodern confusion.

Such sad relics might well give dire warning of what awaited here.

By the 1940s The Bulletin was regarded as a sad relic, filled with racist and antisemitic bile, and with political commentary so right-wing as to seem almost comic.

One of the Boardwalk's saddest relics, at West 21st Street, could easily be missed by all but the most astute architectural historians.

There can be no sadder relic of a greater sorrow, and the last consolation of the Queen did not escape the French popular genius for cruelty and insult.

His flesh eye never seemed as human or real as the other; it was nothing but a sad brown relic.