Sentence examples for left mementos from inspiring English sources

Flags flew at half staff and people left mementos at the shooting site.

The Memorial GrowsOutside of Gate 4 of Yankee Stadium, only a handful of fans left mementos Tuesday after learning the news of George Steinbrenner's death, but the public tribute grew on Friday as the crowd swelled.

A viewing room at the southern edge of ground zero where relatives of 9/11 victims have gathered privately and left mementos since 2002 will be closed on Feb. 27 for excavation and construction, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday.

A sign at the largest of the three, at University Medical Center, asks people to stop leaving mementos, and instead to donate to their favorite charity.

A smaller section of the fence remains intact as part of the memorial, and officials say people still visit day and night and still leave mementos.

Mothers forced to abandon their babies often leave mementos in their clothing, hoping the children will be able to trace them later on, but the orphanages routinely throw these sad tokens away.

But the triumph was not straightforward: as Hass relates, the extreme simplicity of the memorial made people leave mementos of the actual men — an old medal, a playing card, a bottle of Jack Daniel's — along the wall near the name of the fallen soldier.

The 24-year-old's parents, Ian and Susan, and his brother also travelled to Koh Tao to see the spot where the pair were killed, leaving mementos including a copy of a program for Miller's funeral service, where mourners also wore colourful clothes, and his body was carried in a coffin covered in sunflowers.

But the triumph was not straightforward: as Hass relates, the extreme simplicity of the memorial made people leave mementos of the actual men an old medal, a playing card, a bottle of Jack Daniel's along the wall near the name of the fallen soldier.

But the liminal from the Latin limen, for threshold urge to leave mementos on tombs runs deep.

"Some visitors leave mementos, most commonly flowers, spare change and liquor," The Washington Post reports.