Sentence examples for the very memory from inspiring English sources

When his older brother asked him about the torture, he wet himself with fear at the very memory.

She bounces, zooms, tickles the person trying to talk to her; she erupts excitedly at the very memory of the crime.

On Dec. 5 of this year, page A14 of The Times carried a story from Beijing about how the Communists obliterate the very memory of political prisoners.

Manipulating the very memory of Srebrenica unleashes old hatreds that Russia can easily play on to get a foot in the door and increase its influence.

You probably knew, or perhaps even were, somebody like him in school, and the very memory of that person evokes strong guilt or anger.

Oliver Burkeman penned an entire Guardian editorial on the horrors of noisy fellow spectators, cheerfully recalling an usher "who lectured the noisemakers so forcibly and successfully" that the very memory can still, he confesses, "thrill" him (n.p.).

"Their policy was not just to remove the people, but to remove the memory of those people, and the very memories those people might have within them," said Mary.

3 Such was the madness that possessed both sides alike, and so eager were they, incited by the very memories of the spot, which made the one party resolved to conquer this time, too, and the other not to be conquered again.

John H. McWhorter shares what he calls "the very first memory of my life" in his book "Losing the Race".

The very first memory recorded in the ghosted autobiography of 1936 was of "an enormous peasant seated on the stump of a tree".

Prime Minister David Cameron nominated All Saints Church in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, recalling the "very special memory" of his late son Ivan's christening at the church.