How to Use memento in a Sentence

memento

noun
  • It was a memento of our trip.
  • There were few mementos of the movie-star years.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Tourists love these scarves, a memento of the day.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2025
  • And if you’re tempted to take a memento from the park?
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The one-of-a-kind memento comes in green, red, blue, white, sea foam or gray.
    — Kim Foley MacKinnon, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Each guest will end the party with a pile of mementos to take home.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2026
  • For years, his guitar hung over his bed like a memento from a past life.
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Again, Perez thought of what mementos like those would have meant to her.
    — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • The box, stuffed with wedding mementos, hadn’t been opened in decades.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
  • Pictures, mementos, gifts, hand-me-downs and so much more.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So there are a couple of people who have those lighters as a memento.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • From there Joo knew their travel mementos were a great place to start.
    — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 27 June 2017
  • As a memento, Mark took the chimes that hung by my mother’s back door.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
  • Now all that’s left of those three bears are memories and mementos.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • His office sports such mementoes as a real saber-tooth tiger skull.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Inside, the walls are marked with mementos from his former life.
    — David Amsden, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This prompted me to take a longer look at the memento in my medicine cabinet.
    — Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 8 June 2018
  • Now, this movie memento is a whopping 45% off.
    — Hildara Araya, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
  • And for a takeaway memento, the words of the proposal can be etched in glass.
    — Pam Kragen, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • This simple memento is just one way the spirit of my alma mater stays alive.
    — Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Classmates and friends gather at the site of crash to drop off flowers or mementos.
    — Associated Press, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2017
  • That trophy, though, wasn’t just a memento or trinket.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Churchill gave the painting to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip.
    — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In Russia, the mementos of the war have been passed down along with the trauma.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 18 Apr. 2018
  • It’s filled with game balls and other mementos from a Hall of Fame life.
    — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 27 June 2018
  • Wanting to keep the rib as a memento, Sam asked his mom to craft a necklace from it.
    — Jane Lacroix, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Six months later, the photos and mementos from the service are still out.
    — Tessa Weinberg, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2017
  • Over the past week, some visitors have left flowers and mementos on the tree’s stump.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 16 July 2024

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