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How to use memorable in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Memorable means worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable. Example: “At the drop of a hat, he would aphorise an experience into a few memorable words.”

Examples of memorable by meaning

adjectiveWorthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

  • a memorable holiday
  • Hunt hated the character immediately -- Elmo wasn't edgy enough -- and, on one memorable morning, brought him into the Muppeteers' lounge "hanging by the rods," the chopsticklike bars that control his paws.1999 December 22, Jacques Steinberg, “Behind Squeaky Elmo, 6 Feet of Baritone”, in The New York Times

More sentences with memorable

  • At the drop of a hat, he would aphorise an experience into a few memorable words.From the entry aphorise
  • There have been many memorable villainesses in film history.From the entry villainesses
  • First experiences are always the most memorable because they fix themselves in the mind unalterably and most powerfully.From the entry unalterably
  • The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him.From the entry vice versa
  • Perhaps the most memorable is Squeeze Guts Alley (see separate entry).2021 June 15, John Husband, A-Z of Truro: Places-People-History, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN. From the entry ope
  • In my 20s I had a memorable liaison with a 40 year old.2021 June 11, u/EpiphanyCatharsis, “Younger men, what attracts you to older women?”, in Reddit, r/AskMen, archived from the original on 29…. From the entry sapio
  • The songs are not great, there are no memorable characters and the film needed a villain.2021 December 26, @Gibboanxious, X, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2026. From the entry X-Menesque
  • This is an album whose most memorable songs are definitely its strangest.2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian. From the entry lyricism
  • It was so memorable that when he came home to Dahle he played the slått at once.2017 June 7, Ian J Brodie, Rjukan: A UNESCO World Heritage Site, On Location Guides, page 22. From the entry slått
  • Most weather-related fallouts and concentrations were not quite so Stephen Kingesque, but many were memorable.2014, Edward S. Brinkley, “The Changing Seasons: All over the map”, in North American Birds, volume 67, number 3, Colorado Springs, CO…. From the entry Stephen Kingesque
  • A little-willied Virgo guy's horizontal memorable moments will be, most often, those spent on his shrink's couch.2012, Sabrina Simon, In the Stars, page 115. From the entry willied
  • My most memorable moment with my pop pop was when I was younger.2011, Dr. Delphinia D. McNeill Burnett, The Love of a Father: From A Daughters View, page 57. From the entry pop pop
  • As the two men talked, they quoted memorable clues as if they were lines of poetry.2009 June 23, Dean Olsher, From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry slip
  • The band's songs, which can be deliciously unserious, are as memorable as they are charming.2009 January 9, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2018. From the entry deliciously
  • The “Vogue” thing — that was a memorable moment in my lifetime.2009 March 23, Alex Hawgood, “The Three-Ring Circus”, in New York Times. From the entry you know what
  • Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.2008 April 7, Janet Maslin, “A Sex Researcher Walks Into a Lab, and Then Things Start to Get Comical”, in The New York Times, archived…. From the entry undermine
  • Farofa will be a part of any memorable Brazilian lunch, and it was of one in particular.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 83. From the entry farofa
  • Saskia is not the first memorable 12-year-old to have sprung from the head of an Ithacan author.1997, Mallay Charters, “PW interview: Brian Hall: Travels of a Teenage Ulysses”, in Publishers Weekly, volume 244, New York, N.Y., →ISSN…. From the entry Ithacan
  • Almost all of the memorable pretelevision radio programming was provided by one of the major radio networks.1989, Bob Schulberg, Radio Advertising: The Authoritative Handbook, page 57. From the entry pretelevision
  • Therefore the chef must become an artist if the sashimi are to be memorable.1977, Thomas Hoover, “Private Zen: Flowers and Food”, in Zen Culture, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part III (The Rise of Popular…. From the entry sashimi
  • He ought to do something to make his shrievalty memorable .1911, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Brother Copas. From the entry shrievalty
  • The senior has been a dynamic scorer throughout her career, hitting memorable logo 3s and racking up points in bunches.2024 January 31, Chantel Jennings, Ben Pickman and others, "When will Caitlin Clark break the women’s college basketball all-time scoring…. From the entry logo 3
  • A crisp beat, a crazy catchy hook and memorable verses leave listeners struggling to stop themselves from dancing.2021 December 14, “The Diamondback’s top 21 songs of 2021”, in The Diamondback. From the entry egoboost
  • MP for Carshalton and Wallington, Tom Brake, tweeted: "Very memorable & moving service yesterday to unveil the Wrythe War Memorial.2017 July 17, Tom Brake, quotee, “Men of the Wrythe memorial remembering local soldiers who died in the First World War is unveiled in…. From the entry Wrythe
  • And yet the term has not gained much currency, so I will propose another, hopefully more memorable one.2013, Gary Paul Nabhan, Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land: Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty, White River…. From the entry fedge
  • Its simplicity makes it understandable; its alphabeticality makes it memorable.2013 February 7, Daniel H Pink, To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others, Canongate…. From the entry alphabeticality
  • Richie’s most memorable event was co-ordinating and taking part in a static cycleathon in Truro on behalf of the RNRMC.2013 April, “Culdrose’s charity champion”, in Navy News, Portsmouth, Hants., →ISSN, page 18, columns 3–4. From the entry cycleathon
  • It was important that she make something memorable.2011, Debra Ginsberg, The Neighbors Are Watching: A Novel, page 55. From the entry fill in the blank
  • This book’s culture clashes are every bit as memorable as its eerie prefigurings of the present financial meltdowns.2009 January 15, Janet Maslin, “A Monetary Horror Story That Looks Like Today’s”, in New York Times. From the entry prefiguring
  • The game stores a player's progress on the cartridge and will even automatically save replays of memorable shots.2001, Mark Walker, The Video Game Almanac. From the entry replay
  • Wally's parachute pants and sockasins were just too weird for his persona, too memorable should certain questions ever be asked.1997 March 1, Spider Robinson, chapter 3, in Lifehouse, Baen, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry soccasin
  • One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's "imprisonment" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.1995, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics, page 167. From the entry bisociation
  • Shall we try to make it memorable?1991, Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan, volume 210, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2. From the entry nothingburger
  • This philosopher king contrasts sharply with the cruel tyrant, who plays a memorable role in other parts of the Histories.1987, Stewart Flory, The Archaic Smile of Herodotus. From the entry philosopher king
  • I call it the Pinkerton syndrome, after one of the many memorable figures in out national gallimaufray of scholarly eccentrics.1985, J. Derrick McClure, “The Pinkerton Syndrome”, in Chapman: Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine, Edinburgh: Chapman Magazine and…. From the entry gallimaufry
  • I call it the Pinkerton syndrome, after one of the many memorable figures in our national gallimaufray of scholarly eccentrics.1985, J. Derrick McClure, “The Pinkerton Syndrome”, in Chapman: Scotland's Quality Literary Magazine, Edinburgh: Chapman Magazine and…. From the entry Pinkerton syndrome
  • Delightful it was and came with lettuce leaves, a memorable set of Vietnamese mint leaves, chilli and soy and fish sauces.11 May 1984, The Canberra Times, page 2, column 2. From the entry Vietnamese mint
  • In one memorable moment, he reaches underneath his shirt to extract an amulet to ward of Dracula’s advances.1982, Lester D. Friedman, “The Self-Centered Seventies”, in Hollywood’s Image of the Jew (Ungar Film Library), New York, N.Y.: Frederick…. From the entry vampiricide

Meaning of memorable

  1. adjective Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
  2. noun Something interesting enough to be remembered.

Full definition of memorable

Questions about memorable in a sentence

How do you use memorable in a sentence?
Memorable is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “At the drop of a hat, he would aphorise an experience into a few memorable words.”
What is a short sentence with memorable?
“a memorable holiday”
What does memorable mean?
Memorable means worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

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