(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 .
Scrapbook
Definition:
(n.) A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) To help, Rob, a professional graffiti artist and qualified instructor, showed me his scrapbook.
(2) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
(3) We need to help children in care treasure the objects that tell their life story Read more These books, a cross between photo album, scrapbook and folder, are a statutory requirement for all children going into adoption placements .
(4) One straight out of the Roberto Carlos scrapbook, that.
(5) Before the revolution, it was fashionable among the upper classes to assemble so-called knigi dlya dam ( Ladies’ Books) – a kind of bawdy scrapbook.
(6) The sheer beauty of much of this material, along with the scrapbooks and the fanzines, immortalises the fans as much as the actors, offering an illuminating model of the modern cult of celebrity, where the ostensible object of adoration or fascination is merely a pretext for the creativity and projection of the fan.
(7) Designed by LA-based artist Alex Israel and Brian Roettinger, the artwork mimics a collection of scrapbook stickers, each referencing visual tropes from Duran Duran’s past.
(8) Scrapbook, with its boxy format, looks a lot like social media site Pinterest.
(9) The poem about Brearley, the memoir of Mac, the loyalty to his friends from Hackney Downs (he is still, 50 years on, in regular touch with three of them, even though two live in Canada and the other in Australia), the Wisdens and scrapbooks and numerous postcards in his study are all redolent of a man for whom the past is ever present.
(10) He designed his own board game, as well as "Mark Twain's Patent Self-Pasting Scrapbook", which sounds like something the Duke and Dauphin in Huckleberry Finn might sell.
(11) The first chance, a rebound screwed wide after Alexis Sánchez’s header was clawed on to the post, was not one for the scrapbook.
(12) Scrapbook pictures that give a bright glimpse of Anne Frank's life before her family went into hiding are among a wealth of unpublished material made public for Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday.
(13) The scrapbooks, thought to have been made by her father Otto, are held in the archives of the Anne Frank Fund and their release, with rare film footage, letters and pictures, is intended to give a broader picture of the Frank family.
(14) Bungling was uncovered by sharp-eyed Political Scrapbook : in Shapps's vicious little campaign his photo of a perfect blond hardworking family is the same picture used in ads for cod-liver oil, a Spanish dentist, a building firm and home schooling for Christian fundamentalists.
(15) But her new blog, Romy & The Bunnies – part diary, part family scrapbook, heavily accessorised with stuffed rabbits and flashbacks to her chic pregnant mother in 1980s Paris – is fast picking up a following.
(16) Some of the drawing and annotation functions within Samsung's apps such as S Note, SketchBook and Scrapbook could be useful for someone who can draw well, but they're lost on me.
(17) • Scrapbook lets you circle content you like, such as a YouTube video or a news article.
(18) The online scrapbook site Pinterest is about to embark on a new round of financing that could value the company at up to $2.5bn (£1.6bn).
(19) In his office, with its quotes from Steve Jobs on the walls, and his old scrapbooks and journals on the shelves, and its framed Time magazine with "Hunting Joseph Kony" on the cover, Jason Russell still veers between overconfidence and a sense of abject failure.
(20) Between Scrapbook, My Magazine, Air Command and dozens of other functions, it might take even the most experienced smartphone user several hours to figure out.