How to Use amnesia in a Sentence

amnesia

noun
  • One of the two is not telling the truth, or has a terrible case of amnesia.
    Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The drug has been linked to amnesia in some case reports.
    Ashley May, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
  • A city whose own founding myths tell of amnesia, and of the power of texts to resist it.
    Parul Seghal, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
  • Above all, the best way to avoid gluteal amnesia is to mix up your daily routine, says Bang.
    Anthea Levi, CNN, 9 June 2017
  • And then Esther thought about her past in China, the 2½ years of her life lost in the amnesia of early childhood.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Matt Damon is Jason Bourne, seeking the truth while trying to shake the fog of his amnesia.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Mr. Yang said the bottle’s label will help combat the amnesia that has enveloped the killings on the Chinese mainland.
    Didi Kirsten Tatlow, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • Because of this amnesia, Dr. Fanti had to rebuild his life, step by step.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Mar. 2022
  • So white denial, and amnesia, plays a very important role in the story.
    Morgan Jerkins, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And, based on the slow, intense disappearance of red dust, Mie's amnesia is gone.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • They're built puke rays and strobe tanks and amnesia devices in an attempt to divine the ultimate weapon.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Edgar takes a trip down memory lane with the legendary coach who is suffering a bit of amnesia.
    Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Then there’s always hope that Brady develops a slight cased of amnesia.
    George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Things look up for Kate when Leonardo falls overboard and winds up at a hospital with amnesia.
    Randy Cordova, azcentral, 3 May 2018
  • Working through his amnesia, he is found to be a much more gentle and loving friend, father, and husband.
    Leah Hall, Country Living, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Does historical amnesia play a role in the creation of myth?
    Jeff Calder, ajc, 21 Apr. 2017
  • The victim was taken to the hospital where staff told police that the man had suffered amnesia due to the collision.
    Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Our cultural amnesia is, in fact, proof of the sugar snap’s rise to dominance.
    Gene Tempest, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2019
  • But to give any assurances about what Trump will or won't do requires a very convenient brand of amnesia.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018
  • By their lights, one of this bogeyman’s hallmarks is its amnesia.
    Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Sometimes, people may have a flat butt due to gluteal amnesia or dormant butt syndrome.
    Jacqueline Andriakos, Health, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Sam Becker manages a bed and bath store, and when his boss, Jonathan Forest, calls him in for a difficult meeting, Sam falls and fakes amnesia.
    Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 29 July 2023
  • Let Draymond Green and the Warriors talk their selective-amnesia smack, and/or continue to poke the King.
    Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 1 June 2017
  • The woman, played by Janelle Monáe and introduced to viewers as Jackie, has amnesia.
    Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 22 May 2020
  • In terms of actual plot, not much is revealed beyond the fact that our hero suffers from major amnesia on Earth.
    Dan Barna, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Or is one waiting for me, behind the trapdoor of a future amnesia, as my love for the kind of intimacy that expires as rage?
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • VanLandingham suffered amnesia for 18 months, lost his sense of smell and had seizures.
    Kent Somers, azcentral, 17 May 2018
  • The virus also induces a sort of immune-system amnesia.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Many of the same people who mocked him worst before the 2014 Wild Card game caught amnesia and celebrated him the hardest afterward.
    Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 4 June 2019
  • Falling for Christmas, where the Mean Girls star played a spoiled hotel heiress who gets into a skiing accident, suffers amnesia and is cared for by handsome, blue-collar lodge owner.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024

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