How to Use memento in a Sentence

memento

noun

• It was a memento of our trip.
• 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
• The memento from the historic day was signed by the monarch herself, Philip and Beaton.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 17 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Over the past week, some visitors have left flowers and mementos on the tree’s stump.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
• Purchasing one or many toys is the collectible, take-home memento of the fun times spent there.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Still, Cece covertly steals a pillow from the hallowed lounge for Schmidt as a memento of his time there.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Hultzen’s first pitch was a strike, and catcher Willson Contreras rolled the ball to the Cubs dugout as a memento.
  — Mark Gonzales, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• So on June 10, his final day of filming, did Crews take anything from the set as a memento?
  — Karen Mizoguchi, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021
• Now all that’s left of those three bears are memories and mementos.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Jones was handed the ball first, the chance to put it aside as a memento for his personal trophy case.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2021
• Perhaps the baseball used for the first pitch against the Angels on April 8, or some other memento, could be added to the display.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• She also is expected to bring them a memento from the flight, Monte Ochoa said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
• That’s where the best kind of basketball memento awaits.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky | , al, 30 Mar. 2023
• On the wall of their townhome in Cypress, Deby Johnson hung a map of the world pinned with mementos of husband Jack’s voyage.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• Those looking for more menacing mementos could take their pick from display cases filled with replica pistols and AK-47s.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Sep 2024