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How to use memento in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Memento means a keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event. Example: “I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.”

Examples of memento by meaning

nounA keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

  • I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
  • Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June...

More sentences with memento

  • A baseball can be a coinstantiation of the concepts of a ball, a piece of sporting goods, a toy, a collectible, and a memento.From the entry coinstantiation
  • “If someone assaulted you, if someone offended you, would you keep a memento of their assault?2025 November 6, Dan Mangan, quoting Sabrina Shroff, “DC sandwich thrower Sean Dunn found not guilty of assaulting federal agent”, in CNBC. From the entry lunchbox
  • Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.2006, Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry crowd
  • At least it’s given me a chance to study the hospital’s collection of discreet mementoes mori.1998, John Diamond, C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…, London: Vermilion, Ebury Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry memento mori
  • Every year I can, I go to the Glastonbury Festival and pick up a T-shirt or two as a memento.2008 June 23, Andy Sully, “I got trench foot at Glastonbury”, in BBC News. From the entry trench foot
  • As a student of the fossil record, I can assure you that it’s not often that creatures are transformed, in flagrante delicto, into memento mori.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65. From the entry in flagrante delicto
  • Implementation A had sat paralyzed, a hoary, infantile widow in a house packed with undiscardable mementos, no more room to turn around.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 87. From the entry undiscardable
  • Or has old nervewrack thrown open the windows and knocked the mementoes on the floor, poured the sleepingpills in the toilet, tugged on the doorknob?1980, Poetry Northwest - Volumes 21-23, page 19. From the entry nervewrack
  • Bright enamel is a feature of posies around the late sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, with darker enamels continuing into the eighteenth century on memento moris like this example.2021, Jo Ahmet, 50 Finds From Kent: Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme, Amberley Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry memento mori

Meaning of memento

  1. noun A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

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Questions about memento in a sentence

How do you use memento in a sentence?
Memento is used as a noun. For example: “I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.”
What is a short sentence with memento?
“I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.”
What does memento mean?
Memento means a keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memento (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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