commemoratein a sentence
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This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration campscommemorates = honors the memory of
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The plaque was placed to commemorate the scientists who made the discovery possible.commemorate = honor or remember
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It commemorates the disaster that put our town smack on the front page of the Boston and New York tabloids. (source)commemorates = marks by some ceremony or observation
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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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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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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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The director of Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, the state's leading automotive manufacturing agency, was hosting a formal dinner to commemorate their fifth anniversary.† (source)commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
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There was a model tractor commemorating John Deere's fortieth anniversary.† (source)commemorating = marking by some ceremony or observation
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When Mulryne's daughter married Josiah Tattnall, the bride's father commemorated the happy union of the two families by planting great avenues of trees forming the initials M and T intertwined.† (source)
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In that time, the postal service issued a run of commemorative stamps honoring his memory.† (source)commemorative = in honor ofstandard 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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But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured?† (source)commemoration = the act of marking by some ceremony or observationstandard 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)commemorates = marks by some ceremony or observation
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Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time Dede is able to take up her own life again.† (source)
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I collect commemoratives.† (source)
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The Fourth of July—the day of our independence, the day we commemorate the closing of our nation's border forever—is one of my favorite holidays.† (source)commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
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At one end is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating the Revolutionary War dead buried there.† (source)commemorating = marking by some ceremony or observation
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