Example sentences for: mnemonic

How can you use “mnemonic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We remembered the trivial names from the first nine linear dicarboxylic acids ( oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, suberic, azelaic, sebacic ) with the initialized mnemonic, “Oh, my sweet green apple pie sounds absolutely swell.

  • To remember these, we had, “All altruists gladly make gum in gallon tanks,’ yielding allose, altrose, glucose, maltose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose . This mnemonic also yields the correct structures, if one can manage to remember the proper alternations of the Fischer projections used to represent their configurations in two dimensions.

  • Can we ever discard a good, though unnecessary, mnemonic, or are we forever doomed to have delayed responses as these jingles, on cue, run through our heads?

  • To be durable without writing the law had to be rememberable, and the lawyer's penchant for repetition comes from an outmoded attachment to mnemonic devices.

  • Having a mnemonic is no panacea.


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