Sample Sentences for
commemorate
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    For an instant Druse had a strange, half-defined feeling that he had slept to the end of the war and was looking upon a noble work of art reared upon that commanding eminence to commemorate the deeds of an heroic past of which he had been an inglorious part.  (source)
    commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
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    At Camp Half-Blood, demigods got bead necklaces to commemorate years of training.†  (source)
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    Some of the money was changed to commemorate the anniversary.†  (source)
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    Every year Shias commemorate the killing of the grandson of the Prophet, PBUH, Hussein Ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala in the year 680 with a memorial day called Muharram.†  (source)
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    There was a model tractor commemorating John Deere's fortieth anniversary.†  (source)
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    In that time, the postal service issued a run of commemorative stamps honoring his memory.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?†  (source)
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    Some commemoration should be made for my father at his place of rest, in the Arctic.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It's a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare's powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates?†  (source)
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    Some critics were scornful of the government's yearly commemorations of the genocide and of the continuing village-level trials of small-time genocidaires.†  (source)
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    I collect commemoratives.†  (source)
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    It would commemorate not only the Führer's birthday, but the victory over his enemies and over the restraints that had held Germany back since the end of World War I. "Any materials," it requested, "from such times—newspapers, posters, books, flags—and any found propaganda of our enemies should be brought forward to the Nazi Party office on Munich Street."†  (source)
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    There was nothing to read apart from The Gator, the school newspaper, and a pamphlet commemorating the school's fiftieth anniversary, both printed on the other side of campus by Nickel students.†  (source)
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