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How to use souvenir in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb

Souvenir means an item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location. Example: “I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!”

Examples of souvenir by meaning

nounAn item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

  • The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.2005, Steven Church, Guinness Book of Me, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 138

verbTo take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

  • "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57
  • The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 84

More sentences with souvenir

  • I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!From the entry subject
  • Buying a souvenir during a business trip is not a reimbursable expense.From the entry reimbursable
  • We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.From the entry horde
  • It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.From the entry ridiculous
  • Her lucky pen coinstantiates a writing implement, a souvenir, and a hair stick to hold her hair bun!From the entry coinstantiate
  • In the gallery are displayed genuine artifacts dug up from the site, and in the gift shop you can buy a replica as a souvenir.From the entry gallery
  • They lipsynch the soundtrack, cadge souvenirs and pester you with smarmy, show-off questions.2003, Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Tor Books. From the entry show-off
  • Each one admits 2 adults BUT "on purchase of one £3 souvenir brochure".2001 May 21, Seldiy B, “Anyone want some Zippo's circus tickets (Wallington, Croydon, Surrey) for Friday”, in uk.rec.competitions…. From the entry circi
  • Abe Lincoln, Paul Bunyan and kitsch souvenir coconut heads come across as icons of masculinity.June/July 1996, Robert Silberman, “The stuff of art: Judy Onofrio”, in American Craft, pages 40–45. From the entry kitsch
  • Life is lively without being raucous, the landscape is unblemished by gas stations, souvenir stands, or hot-doggeries.1967, Lawrence Martin, Sylvia Martin, “[Austria] The Vacationland”, in Europe: The Grand Tour! An Uncommon Guide, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry unblemished
  • Bugs has picked up a helicopterful of musical souvenirs on his harmonious hop around the globe.1958, “Bugs’s Musical Globe-Hopper”, in Bugs Bunny’s Vacation Funnies, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.. From the entry helicopterful
  • Those little souvenir spoons she sent up with the chocolate yesterday are perfect darlings.1900, Annie Fellows Johnston, “‘Found Out’”, in The Little Colonel’s House Party, Boston, Mass.: The Page Company, published February…. From the entry think the world of
  • But last year's souvenir was unexpected and certainly unwelcome.2008 June 23, Andy Sully, “I got trench foot at Glastonbury”, in BBC News. From the entry trench foot
  • The fish-and-chipperies, the souvenir shops and the penny arcades look forlorn and winter hopeless, two steps from abandonment.2006, Joe Bennett, Mustn’t Grumble: An Accidental Return to England, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 215. From the entry fish-and-chippery
  • Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.1995, M. Joseph Sirgy, A. Coskun Samli, New Dimensions in Marketing/Quality-Of-Life Research, page 306. From the entry trinketize
  • The guest was awarded a souvenir medal and his visit came to a close by a cruise down the Canal.1990, Suez Canal Report, page 22. From the entry SCA
  • My mother kept a dollar bill in Hawaiian currency—a dala—given to her as a souvenir of her brother's service in the army.2018, Todd A. Watkins, Introduction to Microfinance. From the entry dala
  • Back home, meanwhile, souvenir shops in many Canadian cities feature humidors well stocked with Cuban tobacco products for sale to American tourists.2014, Chris Turner, How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change, Biblioasis, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry Canadian as maple syrup
  • The souvenirs which many killers retain of their victims are often described as trophies, and Norman Bates's taxidermic interests derived from the real-life Ed Gein.1994, Philip Jenkins, Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry trophy
  • And what a strange souvenir it is of its time: when mainstreamers desperate to save a newspaper clung for dear life to subversive wit!1991 February 8, Michael Miner, “Sun-Times Picks a Critic/Skip in Time”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry mainstreamer
  • One of the souvenirs of the time was the traditional wooden nickel, actually made of thin balsa and redeemable for cash at the Blairstown Press office.2011, Kenneth Bertholf Jr., Don Dorflinger, Blairstown and Its Neighbors. From the entry wooden nickel
  • In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances. From the entry beige
  • Separated by a winding five-mile road but unified in spirit, they embody all that is carnivalesque, yet comfortable, about an old roadside souvenir shop — just supersized.2009 January 16, Austin Considine, “A Return to Kitsch Mountain”, in New York Times. From the entry carnivalesque
  • Many of the shops filled with cheap made-in-China junk aren't worth a visit, but browse through the center and you may find some worthwhile souvenirs and gifts.2005, Sharon Hamblin, Adventure Guide Maui, page 213. From the entry made in China
  • At the end of the interaction, the museum-goer receives a take-home souvenir: a hardcopy poster of the large garden with a plot of the museum-goer's path of discovery.2003, Sebastian Rahtz, Paul Reilly, Archaeology and the Information Age, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry museum-goer
  • If a visitor should take away the bill of fare of a restaurant or a hotel as a souvenir, he would probably evoke some surprise at home.1960 October 14, [Carlos Brogdon] Embry, quoting an item put out by the Hotel Kempinski, “Foreign Restaurants Offer Menu of Delightful…. From the entry sakuska
  • This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143. From the entry mispeg
  • Yet people claim they remember the town, had friends or relatives who lived there, have visited it, and a few folks have souvenirs to prove they have been to Doveland.2023 August 29, Lauren Dillon, “Doveland, Wisconsin: The Town That Wasn’t There”, in Historic Mysteries. From the entry coordinate
  • The offender is also likely to mentally relive his killings, often with the help of souvenirs or trophies, such as a bracelet or a body part taken from the victim.2004, Ronald F. Becker, Criminal Investigation, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry trophy
  • Speaking of nut-heads reminds me of the shrunken head trophies which head-hunters sell as souvenirs in the interior of Ecuador and of a specimen I later saw in La Paz.1914, Gulian Lansing Morrill, To Hell and Back: My Trip to South America, page 20. From the entry nut-head

Meaning of souvenir

  1. noun An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
  2. verb To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

Full definition of souvenir

Questions about souvenir in a sentence

How do you use souvenir in a sentence?
Souvenir is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I came here to buy souvenirs, not to be subjected to a tirade of abuse!”
What is a short sentence with souvenir?
“But last year's souvenir was unexpected and certainly unwelcome.”
What does souvenir mean?
Souvenir means an item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

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