How to Use in/within living memory in a Sentence

in/within living memory

phrase
  • There is not a secretary in living memory that could have done as good a job with those guys.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • But, because of climate change, this one would be worse than any in living memory.
    New York Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Much of this art form, instead, is retained in living memory, and that is finite.
    Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Pluto is arriving in your sign for the first time in living memory, and will remain here for decades to come.
    Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In the villages around Akole, no leopard had killed anyone in living memory.
    Vidya Athreya, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But the storm that slammed into the west coast of Alaska last week was without an equal — at least not in living memory here.
    Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The 38-year-old Brazilian has rolled back the years with her best club season in living memory.
    Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Those are the two mayors in living memory voters rejected after just one term.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Wildfires in 2021 were some of the most severe in living memory.
    Mikhal Weiner, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2021
  • For sports fans, the Hernandez scandal played out just over a decade ago, well within living memory.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But Putin’s war in Ukraine may be testing that perceived glory more than at any time in living memory.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
  • The peaceful transfer of power has never been in question in living memory until now.
    Michael Tackett and Calvin Woodward, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Our political divides seem more intractable now than at any other time in living memory.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Yet, this bold step forward occurs just as the luxury sector faces some of its most complex challenges in living memory.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Gijsels said, however, that the next super-cycle could be the biggest in living memory.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2025
  • This White House has launched some of the most aggressive antitrust policies in living memory.
    J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Partition displaced tens of millions of people and caused loss of life and property that remains in living memory for many.
    Deepa Das Acevedo, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The die-off, the biggest in living memory, quickly led to an investigation.
    Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In a city where segregation is still within living memory, this kind of approach feels urgent and necessary.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 5 May 2023
  • That’s because these are places that, unlike the United States, have truly felt the pain of upheaval in living memory.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Blanksma was the first majority leader in living memory to lose her position mid-session and the first woman to serve in the role.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Perhaps not in living memory have its members held so little faith in or so much skepticism of the Big Ten home office itself.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2023
  • Both expeditions were still within living memory at the time and haunted the thoughts of the temporary residents of Wrangel.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • Swaths of Pakistan are now underwater, after the heaviest rains on record triggered some of the country's worst floods in living memory.
    Rachel Ramirez and Angela Dewan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The virus is setting daily records in Europe as the continent contemplates the worst recession in living memory.
    John Follain, Bloomberg.com, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Yet, by general consensus, this may be the worst Manchester United team in living memory.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • News of Disney’s spending plans comes as Tinseltown grapples with the biggest strike by both writers and actors in living memory.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Many Senate lifers seem convinced there was a time in living memory when the institution worked correctly, with the same rules that currently strangle it.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Will Smith walking up on stage and slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars was among the most stunning live television moments in living memory.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 29 Dec. 2022
  • More horrors emerged from the debris and ubiquitous layers of mud left by the walls of water that produced Spain’s deadliest natural disaster in living memory.
    Alberto Saiz, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'in/within living memory.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: