Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "memento"

Lexicographically close words:
membris; membro; membrum; meme; mement; mementoes; mementos; memes; memini; meminisse
  1. On this, other presents were offered; Bulpert said his memento would come later on.

  2. When she looked again the car had gone, leaving dust as a slight memento of the encounter.

  3. It must have been considered a big inducement, for a few days after the ship came in safe, and the stone sail stands to-day a memento of the Virgin's goodness.

  4. But it stands to-day a silent memento of a murdered young emperor and a blighted empress.

  5. He took the punched envelope back to Pittsburg as a memento of the cheapest journey he ever took.

  6. After relating this circumstance, Cortes added, that he would lay the matter before the emperor for his imperial decision as to who could claim some memento of the monarch's capture in his armorial bearings.

  7. Those who did not witness it themselves will scarcely credit this, for there were masses of rock carried down by the flood which two oxen could not move, and these blocks of stone were left there as a memento of this fearful tempest.

  8. It has been seen how, at Orleans, the ardent novice of the Society of Jesus was passionately devoted to the cross, the memento of our Saviour's Passion.

  9. This letter is highly prized by the sexton and has been shown to visitors, among others to Senator Hoar, as a characteristic memento of General Sherman.

  10. I have kept it as a memento of him, but have never had occasion to present it to anyone.

  11. No Limiar de Morte (On The Threshold of Death) is the voluptuary’s memento mori after his carpe diem.

  12. And, as happens so often with the ultra-refined of his kin, the taste of his ecstasies at times is blunted by the memento mori of weary thought.

  13. These are now in the writer's possession, and form a pretty memento of his Crusoe days.

  14. We are all well pleased with our day’s outing, especially the Colonel, who is in a high good humor, for had he not obtained what no one else could get, a substantial memento of his visit to the famous Baldwin ranch?

  15. It was a memento mori then, I suppose," replies the other.

  16. He also presented Cutler with a splendid piece of nesotype or needle stone, which he begged him to keep as a memento of the "Bachelor Beaver's-dam.

  17. What had I to do with the inward purity and peace this memento of Christ is supposed to leave in our souls?

  18. I would fain keep it As a memento of the Gypsy camp In Guadarrama, and the fortune-teller Who sent me back to wed a widowed maid.

  19. As old Horace said: "Aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem.

  20. A STOIC I 1 "Aequam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem:"--Horace.

  21. My crimson blood will thus be a memento of my sincere[44] friendship to you, a symbol of my insignificant service loyally tendered to our Great Sire.

  22. If you are killed and I remain whole, I will gather all your things and keep them as a dear memento of our camp life together.

  23. I remember very well that it was on the 23d of May that our captain asked for our autographs as a memento and family heirloom.

  24. Here is a memento of the feast hanging up at the top of the kitchenward door--a pair of roughly-forged, rusty handcuffs amalgamated into one pair of jaws, like a muskrat trap.

  25. I have given her, as a parting gift, a couple of Scotch views framed; and they hang on the wall as a memento of places equally dear to both of us.

  26. As the medal was pinned on the President's coat he remarked: "It needed not this memento to remind me of this auspicious occasion.

  27. I receive with great satisfaction the memento you have given me of the varied products of this most fertile and happy valley.

  28. In accepting the memento the President said: "Mr. Kedzee and gentlemen, I thank you for this cordial welcome and for this elegant souvenir, and assure you due care will be taken of your interests.

  29. However, that night the child died; and upon the wall in a glass case was the stuffed bird as well as the moth, a melancholy memento of the tragedy of thirty years ago.

  30. A memento of the royal visit is still preserved in the form of a medicine chest that the king left behind, which in those days doubtless contained some of his favourite specific "Jesuit drops.

  31. She has pulled down the unworthy memento of subjection.

  32. That white building, the Post Office, occupies the site of the Castle, which, until a few years ago, stood as a memento of the end of the Valois Dukes.

  33. Ate of a diabolical ragout at dinner, so I shan't smoke till I have washed away the lingering memento of it with wine.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "memento" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arch; brass; bust; cairn; cenotaph; column; commemoration; cross; cup; dolmen; favor; grave; gravestone; headstone; inscription; marker; mausoleum; memento; memorial; memory; monolith; monument; mound; necrology; obelisk; obituary; pillar; plaque; prize; pyramid; record; relic; reliquary; remembrance; reminder; ribbon; shadow; shaft; shrine; souvenir; stela; stone; stupa; tablet; testimonial; token; tomb; tombstone; tope; trace; trophy; vestige