Example sentences for: mnemonic

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

  • 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.

  • so well that they are destined chronically to misspell seizure . Ogden Nash's orthographist's mnemonic, of more limited utility, at least has no exceptions--

  • ’ He is right in saying that the mnemonic he lists for pi is cumbersome.

  • I admire Stephen Hirschberg's mnemonic tricks [XVI, 3], but he has left out an important postscript to the Ogden Nash poem about the one- I lama and the two-l llama . When Nash gets to the three- l lllama and concludes there isn't any, he amends himself in a footnote: “The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as the three-alarmer . Pooh.

  • Lacking a mnemonic for it, I had to look up this quote from Virgil's Aeneid, but perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even these things.


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