memento

Example Sentences

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His so-called “bone temple” is an actualization of his life philosophy, memento mori, which translates from Latin as “Remember you must die.”

From Salon

Natalie flashed back to putting all her family’s valuables and personal mementos up high, to keep them out of the water.

From Literature

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.

From BBC

In his office are mementos his parents collected from reporting trips, including propaganda from Saddam Hussein-era Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s kept all manner of adolescent mementos, such as beads she fashioned out of tightly-rolled magazine pages or colorful pieces of clay.

From Los Angeles Times