Example sentences for: reminders

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

  • Mightn't the eviscerated cows and the fowl in the throes of death be experienced as modernist mementi mori, fetishistic reminders of the darkest, cruelest, and most primitive human instincts?

  • Amulets and other trinkets, many hand-carved, are reminders of the African strain in Puerto Rican culture.

  • The ancient Egyptians painted images of food and personal effects in their tombs, images that were to accompany the dead on their last journey, and a rich tradition of European still-life painting slips little reminders of mortality--skulls and flickering candles--among the apples and pears and peeled lemons.

  • Born on a Normandy farm, the only child of a cattle breeder, Léger never lost a palpable nostalgia for the countryside, reminders of which appear in some of his most urban paintings--such as the incongruous tree branches on the elevated platform in Construction Workers of 1950.

  • The publication of The Haldeman Diaries a month later, with its reminders of Nixon's scheming, sinister side, confirmed that Watergate would hardly be forgotten soon.


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