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
• In Russia, the mementos of the war have been passed down along with the trauma.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
• 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
• And for a takeaway memento, the words of the proposal can be etched in glass.
  — Pam Kragen, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 3 July 2017
• The box, stuffed with wedding mementos, hadn’t been opened in decades.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• As a memento, the city of Minot gave Howard Henry a meter with a plaque.
  — April Baumgarten, Twin Cities, 12 Mar. 2017
• It’s filled with game balls and other mementos from a Hall of Fame life.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
• At a 50th, even our mementos are fragile: The green paint might run.
  — Scott Herhold, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• 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
• From there Joo knew their travel mementos were a great place to start.
  — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 27 June 2017
• 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
• Waters uses the space to store some of her three kids’ books and mementos, which helps keep the clutter in their rooms under control.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
• Inside of the garage was the 1966 Triumph Tiger Cub motorcycle that his grandfather had left him as a memento.
  — Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025