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

The novel emerged as he began writing about the objects he had saved, everything from family keepsakes to trinkets picked up at the bazaars, which gradually brought his characters to life.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

They made casts of Teddy's hands and feet, and also spent time with him in the hospital's baby loss garden, pushing him in a pram donated to the suite along with clothes and keepsakes.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

She has lots of framed photos and colorful keepsakes.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson