memento

Turning from one set of images to the other makes for a haunting memento mori—and also serves as an elegant and affecting segue to Ms. Emin’s recent paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“It’s a memento to a certain period of time,” said Arasheben, whose company is Jason of Beverly Hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

His so-called “bone temple” is an actualization of his life philosophy, memento mori, which translates from Latin as “Remember you must die.”

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Some of them I’d taught how to write their names, so this is a real memento of my time here.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

MV Hebridean Isles won a special place in the hearts of islanders during its many years of service, and numerous mementoes have been retained.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025

It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

He found Madame Hoo in their rear fourth-floor apartment kneeling before her bamboo trunk, fingering mementoes from her childhood in China.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

Pooh Corner has been a gift shop and tea room close to Pooh Sticks Bridge in Hartfield since 1978 and is filled with mementos.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

A teak bed from the Philippines and family mementos help to make the new ADU feel like home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

Did you swipe mementos when the films wrapped?

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

There were gifts, heirlooms, and mementos we got to touch or see only at Christmas or Easter.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals