memento

Turning from one set of images to the other makes for a haunting memento mori—and also serves as an elegant and affecting segue to Ms. Emin’s recent paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

A story station inside the theatre will print the stories on eco-friendly paper as a memento, and the recordings will be available worldwide through the Bloomberg Connects app.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Kelson’s memento mori, in its way, adds dignity to what is otherwise a sentence to nothingness.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambi­tion.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

He looks through a cardboard carton, filled with diaries, albums and mementoes of his son.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2024

Tucked in between old woolen socks and pants were mementoes: circus bills, a dance card, penny postcards, a few photos.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

It's a trend that has filled TikTok and Pinterest as pupils look for more permanent mementos to be signed by their friends, while online marketplaces like Etsy offer thousands of personalised shirts for a fee.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Cárdenas, who became a U.S. citizen in 1963, had his house, life savings and many priceless mementos from his broadcasting career seized.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: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 ● Jan. 20, 2026

A teak bed from the Philippines and family mementos help to make the new ADU feel like home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

He had mementos of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915—little towers of jewels.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck