(n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(2) When she is bickering with Bleeker about the conception, and it looks as though he is going to have the last word by telling her that he has kept her knickers as a memento, she, without missing a beat, says, "I still have your virginity."
(3) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
(4) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
(5) She left no mark behind; there are no photographs or mementoes of her brief life.
(6) It also offers a memento of, and a comment on, the more instantly lovable work finished decades before – of the rich and longstanding relationship of a master of still life with kitchen pots and pans.
(7) In beard and dark shirt, Mohamed Ahmed Nur – described more than once as mayor of the world's most dangerous city – sits at a desk full of flags, mementos and trophies.
(8) That is why this memory of the manuscripts that do not exist any more should serve as memento for future generations.
(9) Three more from Muriel Spark Memento Mori (1959); The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960); The Girls of Slender Means (1961).
(10) But, significantly, the show will not include recent works such as the critically panned skull paintings he showed at the Wallace Collection in London in 2009 – described by the Guardian's art critic, Adrian Searle, as " a memento mori for a reputation ".
(11) The wall behind her is lined with mementoes from her time as first lady – an honorary plaque from the Liberian national football team, a signed photograph of her with Hillary Clinton and a framed photo of the Taylors with former French president Jacques Chirac.
(12) A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy.
(13) We analyzed the experts' conclusions regarding legal mementos and expert reports, wherein medical liability (4 cases) and repair of dental injury (2 cases) were put into question.
(14) They will doubtless arrive to examine her grisly family mementoes, but that will only be a small step towards any form of justice.
(15) We give him a fragment of a smashed-up hard drive, a memento of the Guardian’s tangles with GCHQ: a year ago this weekend, senior editors destroyed computers used to store Snowden’s documents while GCHQ representatives watched .
(16) Wangari Maathai's office in fuming, downtown Nairobi is full of citations and mementos, but there is one special photograph.
(17) "Clearly, someone thought it was better to keep it as a memento.
(18) His duties probably included chasing off those who came with hammers (which could apparently be hired locally) to chip away pieces of the stones as mementoes.
(19) It's the sort of covetable memento that says "I was there" just as much as a crumpled 1966 World Cup final ticket or recurrent lysergic acid flashbacks.
(20) But judging from the contents of the office – a clutter of playtexts and mementoes of previous productions – Stephens hasn't been short of work.
Memorabilia
Definition:
(n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(3) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(4) Owen said the original plan had been to auction the tapes as a piece of folk memorabilia, something that would attract a wealthy fan.
(5) This survey was designed to study cherished objects and other memorabilia as "reminiscentia," (i.e., as inducers of reminiscence).
(6) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
(7) Memorabilia - ranging from the mail sacks to some of the cutlery they used as they hid out - will be on display.
(8) From 2018, the RA's 250-year anniversary, it is expected to go on permanent display along with a changing display from a collection that includes one of the finest sculptures in Britain – Michelangelo's Tondo – as well as mountains of personal memorabilia, letters, sketches and drawings from a who's who of British artists.
(9) Greeks know what it is like to lose everything: homes, friends, memories, pictures, the memorabilia of their lives.
(10) Standing in front of the first of two "glamscapes" of memorabilia and pop-culture ephemera, I am confronted by things I had hoped never to be reminded of again.
(11) More than 7,000 people lined up outside the Astrodome in 2013 for a fundraising auction that sold off hundreds of pairs of stadium seats, memorabilia and even chunks of AstroTurf, netting the county more than $800,000.
(12) Officially, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - one of the country's oldest black organisations - has criticised the trade in racist memorabilia.
(13) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(14) A stage has been set up to welcome medallists and fans can pick up supporter’s packs containing Russian flags and peruse memorabilia donated by famous Russian athletes.
(15) Tonight, after you've tricked and treated your way through Halloween festivities and thrown your elaborate costume in the bottom of your closet for another year, I'd be grateful if you could throw away whatever pink ribbon festooned memorabilia (or junk) you have gathered this month, too.
(16) In the car park outside, busloads of oblivious Japanese and American tourists pulled in for their 20-minute tour of the Wordsworth residence and a visit to the gift shop to stock up on daffodil memorabilia.
(17) Stephanie Connell, head of entertainment memorabilia at Bonhams, which is selling the artwork, said it was an "iconic design".
(18) Turn to other online shops Ebay celebrated 15 years of activity in the UK in 2014, when it sold 3bn items – not all of them kitsch memorabilia.
(19) The house is the ultimate in moneyed hippydippydom – candles at every corner, trinkets on every shelf, elephants from India, giraffes from Africa, memorabilia from their travels.
(20) The public stereotype of corruption is the mass looting of government coffers by an African dictator and family to buy fast cars, fine wines, mansions, and Michael Jackson memorabilia .