memento

Example Sentences

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After dinner, I pass out little memento goodies such as honey, tea, candy or jams as party favors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

It is a chronicle, an accounting, a memento mori.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025

I grabbed one as a memento of my time here and also as a reminder of what’s happening with Latinos right now.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2025

One such Athletic shirt remains a cherished memento from an away day that Newcastle fan Philip Long will never forget.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

“If the disease has disappeared as it no doubt has,” wrote “Howard” in that day’s General Advertiser, “every memento of its existence should disappear with it, that the citizens may once more enjoy repose.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy