recollection

Example Sentences

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During the Jewish diaspora, special volumes were created to preserve the recollection of towns and villages that had been erased in the Holocaust.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ms. Schilinski roams in and out of all the impressions and recollections, most of them stained by sadness and regret, without turning maudlin or melodramatic.

From The Wall Street Journal

I had a sudden recollection of booming laughter and the thick smell of pipe tobacco.

From Literature

They will have no recollection of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal

The mood you were in at the time of reminiscence left emotional fingerprints on the memory, as neurons activated by your mental environment synced up with those activated by the recollection.

From Los Angeles Times