MEMORY in a Sentence

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For MEMORY, below is one of 367 sentences:
She had a vague memory of one of Aunt Pitty's stories of a friend who was in labor for two days and died without ever having the baby.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEMORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
memory
 n.  faculty of mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mrs. Hale drew a deep breath, as though her memory were eased of its long burden, and she had no more to say; but suddenly an impulse of complete avowal seized her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  He was gone and the memory of his stricken face would haunt her till she died.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  But the memory was blurred, blurred by the sudden feeling of irritation that memory of him always brought to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  For all they knew the ladies of France might be shaving their heads and wearing coonskin caps, so Rhett's memory for furbelows was an excellent substitute for Godey's Lady's Book.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But she was so glad now to have someone to talk to, someone to divert her thoughts from Ashley, that she hastily put the memory from her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  I realize you still cherish the memory of the godlike and wooden- headed Mr. Wilkes, who's probably been in his grave these six months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
8  She had a vague memory of one of Aunt Pitty's stories of a friend who was in labor for two days and died without ever having the baby.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  As he moved slowly to the side of the wagon, there was a ghostly semblance of the old host of Tara welcoming guests, as if Gerald spoke words from out of shadowy memory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  At the sight of them, three times a day, her memory would rush back to the old days, the meals of the old days, the candle-lit table and the food perfuming the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  Whenever Scarlett raised her voice in reproof, he went weak with fright as his vague childish memory brought up the horrors of the first time she had ever done it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  No feeling of horror or remorse assailed her at the memory.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  They were going and Tara was safe, but with the pain of Ellen's memory on her, she was hardly glad.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  It's an insult to the memory of my blooded darlings to have a mule in their paddock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
16  The memory was buried deep within my subconscious.
17  I retain a clear memory of those days.
18  Life, half is memory, half is to continue.
19  She blushed furiously at the memory of the conversation.
20  The data are stored in the computer's memory.
21  Thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer's memory.
22  The memory of it all was locked deep in my subconscious.
23  When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we are pushed forward by time.
24  Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
25  The drugs had a severe effect on her short-term memory.
26  I will cherish the memory of working with you and wish you all the best, enjoy your new job and life.
27  Story eventually, i can only one man looked at the memory of the nicety lost.
28  Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
29  She tried to obliterate all memory of her father.
30  Stepping forward can't finish the distance while going backwards can't get rid of the memory.