The phrase "a sad memory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a recollection that evokes feelings of sadness or regret.
Example: "Looking at old photographs often brings back a sad memory of my childhood pet."
Alternatives: "a sorrowful recollection" or "a melancholic remembrance."
Many players have a sad memory of one that got away imprinted on their bridge psyche.
The death of Jonathan Carey, a 13-year-old resident of the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center near Albany, brought back a sad memory from the early 1970s.
"Grass-Roots Effort Paves Path to a Pardon by Bush" (news article, Nov. 30), about presidential pardons, awakened a sad memory.
In contrast, the Imola race weekend of 2003 remains a sad memory, when his mother died in a hospital in Cologne some time in the night between Saturday and Sunday.
There is one more boon of abandoning the lawn that you do not mention: an end to the perpetual drone of mowers and blowers that make the stillness of the countryside but a sad memory.
At the time I felt I understood its cynicism, but it has since become a sad memory, the same way I feel sad about having trusted manipulative friends, I tell Devriendt.
The narrator, who is gay, has a particularly sad memory of a young man he loved during the Second World War, before it was acceptable to his family and milieu.
A little candy is better than a long, sad memory of being totally denied treats at Halloween.
It is a very sad memory".Reed said it was not uncommon for the parents of triplets to have all three newborns in different hospitals.
The unspeakable loss of 26 innocent lives, two years ago today at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, will always be a painfully sad memory for the United States.
For every Bob Baffert quote and sincere effort of those involved in this almost-desperate attempt for the sport's 12th Triple Crown winner, there may be a corresponding sad memory of what happened in the same week as American Pharoah's quest.
