heirloom

Example Sentences

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As for the tchotchkes, they ran the gamut from tacky souvenir to sentimental heirloom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

“I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The orchard’s 16 heirloom varieties, older cultivars passed down by generations of farmers, are fenced to keep out the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Another fan, Riley Beresford, 25, from Nottingham, has inherited a copy of Sabbath's 1970 single Paranoid as a family heirloom from his grandmother.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

My parents treated me like a breakable heirloom, afraid to fight or fret in front of me lest I shatter.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs