Definition: 1. Your ability to remember things. 2. The period of time that somebody is able to remember events. 3. Something that is remembered. 4. The part of the computer where information is stored, especially for a short time before it is transferred to disks or magnetic tapes.
Use 'memory' in a sentence:
1. Bit by bit memories of the night came back to me.
2. Are you sure? Memory can play tricks on you.
3. Memory can atrophy through lack of use.
4. Streams had run dry for the first time in memory.
5. He'd a good memory for faces, and he was sure he hadn't seen her before.
6. That day is stamped indelibly on my memory.
7. The photos bring back lots of good memories.
8. This new discovery helps amnesiacs keep their memory.
9. Intoxication interferes with memory and thinking, speech and coordination.
10. It was the worst storm in recent memory.
11. Memory is selective and fallible.
12. Their memory of what happened has dimmed.
13. No-one in living memory has come back from that place alive.
14. He had a photographic memory for maps.
15. She died ten years ago but her memory lives on.
16. I have happy memories of my years in Poland.
17. He had a long memory for people who had disappointed him.
18. Luke had an amazingly retentive memory.
19. His illness caused him to lose his memory.
20. I have vivid memories of my grandparents.
21. Thousands of pieces of data are stored in a computer's memory.
22. This moment will live in our memory for many years to come.
23. This information is no longer retained within the computer's main memory.
24. The photos bring back lots of good memories .
25. He has lots of happy memories of his stay in Japan.
26. The patient exhibited signs of fatigue and memory loss.
27. She can recite the whole poem from memory .
28. He had a good memory for faces.
29. This hasn't happened in living memory (= nobody alive now can remember it happening) .
30. I have a bad memory for names.
31. People have short memories (= they soon forget) .
32. The dream wakened a forgotten memory.
33. All the details of the meeting are fresh in my memory.
34. The data are stored in the computer's memory.
35. Please verify that there is sufficient memory available before loading the program.
36. I have a very good visual memory.
37. He suffered loss of memory for weeks after the accident.
38. The memory expansion cards are useful adjuncts to the computer.
39. He founded the charity in memory of his late wife.
40. Everything in the computer's memory can be copied onto disks.
41. She remained devoted to his memory.
42. I have very fond memories of my time in Spain.
43. Everything that happened that night was obliterated from his memory.
44. There hasn't been peace in the country in/within my memory .
45. The memory of that day still haunts me.
46. Many members of the church sang from memory.
47. She cannot bear to watch the film because of the bad memories it brings back.
48. The time we spent together is now a distant memory.
49. The congress opened with a minute's silence in memory of those who died in the struggle.
50. Let's drink to his memory, eh?
51. The memory brought a tear to her eye.
52. She smiled, as though solaced by the memory.
53. My memory is not clear on that point.
54. Children write down the word, cover it up and then try to spell it from memory.
55. Their strengths in memory and spatial skills matched.
56. She has a good memory and finds it easy to retain facts.
57. As he aged, his memory got worse.
58. One of the problems of old age is that your memory can start to play tricks on you.
59. This hasn't happened in living memory.
60. People have short memories.
61. Memory is constitutive of identity.
62. She set up a charitable fund in her father's memory.
63. Her earliest memory is of singing at the age of four to wounded soldiers.
64. How much memory does the program occupy?
65. She has a very short memory.
66. The floods are the worst in living memory.
67. Her memory lives on (= we still remember her) .
68. His memory was becoming shockingly bad.
69. What is your earliest memory?
70. His memory suffered irremediable damage.
71. The unexpected and sudden memory briefly panicked her.
