memories
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Everyone has been so lovely - one person said that 'time is a funny old thing, but you're stitched into our memories'," she says.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2025
"Everybody tells you to spend time with them, and the worst phrase, 'make memories'," she says.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2023
In the 'Redford burn of happy memories' they sailed ships richly laden with whin pods for vanilla, and yellow lichen for gold.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Black, Margaret Moyes
Ultimately, though, it was the acquired belief that "the past is dust" that kept us from searching and sifting through finer elements of memories' shifting sands.
From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot
Now it is a month of June, Now December's shivering hour; Now rides high loved memories' Moon, Now the Dark is dense with power!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
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