put in mind of

Idioms and Phrases

see put one in mind of .

Example Sentences

It made me feel a lot more grateful, maybe because I’m 53 now, and I have kids who I’m watching grow up really quickly, and I need only be put in mind of, “What if I wasn’t here for them?”

From Los Angeles Times

Time and again while writing “The Boys,” I was put in mind of Kafka’s second category — the shift from observation to invention.

From Washington Post

I’m put in mind of an observation that Samuel Butler, the Victorian man of letters, made about the pairing of another difficult couple: that it had the virtue of making only two people miserable rather than four.

From New York Times

Some readers will be put in mind of Norman Mailer’s epic “The Executioner’s Song,” about the surreal events surrounding the execution of the convicted killer Gary Gilmore in Utah in the 1970s.

From New York Times

I was put in mind of a line from Norman Mailer in “The Executioner’s Song”: “If you jacked up an old plaster ceiling, you couldn’t have more fast-developing cracks in a situation.”

From New York Times

Related Words

• hint
• indicate
• point
• promise
• refer
• represent