How to Use memento in a Sentence

memento

noun

• It was a memento of our trip.
• The one-of-a-kind memento comes in green, red, blue, white, sea foam or gray.
  — Kim Foley MacKinnon, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• There are a lot of mementos from the '14 and '15 World Series and the minor leagues.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 12 June 2018
• Churchill gave the painting to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip.
  — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• The ball was retrieved and kept for Greene as a memento.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2022
• Again, Perez thought of what mementos like those would have meant to her.
  — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• His half of the room was barely large enough to fit a bed, a chair, and a handful of mementos.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2019
• But Eriksson Ek might be able to keep the memento this time.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• As a memento, Mark took the chimes that hung by my mother’s back door.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• The box, stuffed with wedding mementos, hadn’t been opened in decades.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• It’s filled with game balls and other mementos from a Hall of Fame life.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• Wanting to keep the rib as a memento, Sam asked his mom to craft a necklace from it.
  — Jane Lacroix, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
• The memento from the historic day was signed by the monarch herself, Philip and Beaton.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
• The set designers saved a few copies of the blanket as mementos ... or in case the show came back on air.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 27 Apr. 2018
• Kristin Chenoweth is looking back on 20 years of Wicked with a sweet memento.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The box's cherry top was a memento a woman gave him in 1997, Sturtz wrote.
  — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
• For years, his guitar hung over his bed like a memento from a past life.
  — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
• There will be a small shelf for each name where someone can leave a memento to honor the dead.
  — Ben Brasch, ajc, 2 Feb. 2021
• And sometimes, mementos are just too hard to throw away.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 28 Aug. 2019
• Each guests takes home a pearl from Adler’s New Orleans as a memento.
  — Ann Maloney, nola.com, 5 June 2019
• But the flowers, hugs, mementos, tears and cheers lose a meaning if the ending isn’t right.
  — oregonlive, 2 Mar. 2020
• It’s the one he and his fellow soldiers seized during the war, and is now part of the war memento display in his home.
  — Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2021
• With any luck, Gay will be able to give his children the best kind of memento — himself, back at home safe and sound.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 6 July 2020
• So there are a couple of people who have those lighters as a memento.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Michael died the following year, and mementos of the pair’s own romance still fill Ross’ Cardiff digs.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
• This prompted me to take a longer look at the memento in my medicine cabinet.
  — Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
• Over the past week, some visitors have left flowers and mementos on the tree’s stump.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• So Cole signed his cleats and sent them to the Giants' clubhouse as a memento for Crawford.
  — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 26 May 2018
• Purchasing one or many toys is the collectible, take-home memento of the fun times spent there.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Sometimes teams try to negotiate with the lucky fan, such as when a player hits his first MLB home run—the ball is a memento the player and his family obviously would like to keep.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024