keepsakes

Example Sentences

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People have been lining up at Costco and Walmart to buy gold bars and digging through their jewelry boxes to turn keepsakes into cash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Don eventually remarried and had three more kids, but he held on to a big box of Cynthia’s clothes and other keepsakes, including a lock of hair and bottle of her perfume.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

In his will, written shortly before his death in 1821, Napoleon left several imperial keepsakes -- including two of his last hats -- to his son, the King of Rome.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Families who had lived in Altadena for generations lost the keepsakes and records of their entire history; some lost neighbors or family who didn’t make it out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026

The HQ was half office/half shop—the office portion commendably busy looking, the shop half arrayed with AT guides and keepsakes.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson