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Used with verbs:
"
The house holds many memories for them."
(holds, brings back, conjures, evokes)
"
He is haunted by his memories."
(be + haunted by)
"
I have a good memory."
(have)
"
My memories are fading."
(be + fading)
"
I am losing my memory."
(be + losing, be + regaining)
"
Certain smells jog my memory."
(jog, refresh, trigger, rekindle)
"
I want to preserve the memories of my childhood."
(preserve, share, block, erase)
"
He tried to recall his memories."
(recall, repress, suppress, recover, search)
"
I treasure memories of my parents."
(treasure, cherish, retained)
Used with adjectives:
"
I don't remember him helping in recent memory."
(recent)
"
She has a photographic memory of what happened that day."
(photographic, selective, clear, good, terrible, awful, excellent, vague, fuzzy, hazy, vivid)
"
I have so many special memories of my childhood."
(special, sweet, early, childhood, distant, pleasant, fond, disturbing, lasting, painful, sad, old, bad, happy)
"
He lost his long-term memory after the accident."
(long-term, short-term)
"
She has repressed memories of her childhood."
(repressed, suppressed)
"
What is your first memory of your grandmother?"
(first, favorite)
Used with prepositions:
"
I have no memory of that."
(of)
"
I have no memory for detail."
(for)
"
I smile at the memory of my childhood."
(at)
"
I wrote this in memory of my late friend."
(in)
"
I can recite the poem from memory."
(from)
