Sample Sentences for

commendation

grouped by contextual meaning

(editor-reviewed)

She was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal.

She received a commendation for bravery for rescuing the old woman from the burning home.

If that happened, the captain and the sergeant would have little choice but to take him off desk duty and put him back on patrol again—with a glowing commendation for his file.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

I got better, and when hundreds of thousands flocked to our base for a biannual air show, our media relations worked so well that I earned a commendation medal.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

Pratte and his crew were given special commendations.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

He easily could have turned Luke in, and gotten praise and another commendation ceremony.†  (source) Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Hidden, 1998

But they had what remained of their army to comfort; they left him and strode among their soldiers, dispensing words of consolation to the wounded and commendations of bravery to all.  (source) Frank Beddor, The Looking Glass Wars, 2006

This had earned him and Dodge a flowery letter of commendation.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

Kohler took a sharp left and entered a wide hallway adorned with awards and commendations.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

And the commendation was given under the strictest secrecy.†  (source) David Baldacci, Zero Day, 2011

Action means commendations, and possibly promotions.†  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

He loved the army, and even received a commendation for a letter he wrote to his captain about inequities in the treatment of colored soldiers.†  (source) Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, 2019

At that hour most of the others were sewing likewise; but one class still stood round Miss Scatcherd's chair reading, and as all was quiet, the subject of their lessons could be heard, together with the manner in which each girl acquitted herself, and the animadversions or commendations of Miss Scatcherd on the performance.†  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

She deserves generous commendation for her efforts.

Fearing that Kano might be mistakenly accused of war crimes, Martindale and several other POW officers wrote a letter of commendation for him before they went home.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Appropriate commendations and the nodding of heads.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Miss Crawford knew Mrs. Norris too well to think of gratifying her by commendation of Fanny;  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

To be deriving support from the commendations of Mrs. Fraser!  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Now I may say that even I could not require William Price to excite a greater interest, or be followed by warmer wishes and higher commendation, than were most voluntarily bestowed by my uncle after the evening they had passed together.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

The duke hath offered him letters of commendations to the king.  (source) William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 1607

They talked of William, a subject on which Mrs. Price could never tire; and Mr. Crawford was as warm in his commendation as even her heart could wish.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.  (source) William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 1607

Not much commendation to them.  (source) William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 1607

I have those hopes of her good that her education promises; her dispositions she inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity,—they are virtues and traitors too: in her they are the better for their simpleness; she derives her honesty, and achieves her goodness.  (source) William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 1607