All 7 Uses
commemorate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- A U.S. Senator, Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming, expressing a rising sentiment from around the country, arose in the Senate and called for a postage stamp to be issued commemorating The Photograph.†
Chpt 13.commemorating = marking by some ceremony or observation
- The Bradleys with commemorative plaque atop Mount Suribachi, April 1998.†
Chpt 15. *commemorative = in honor of
- An Iwo Jima commemorative stamp was issued on July 11, the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps Reserve.†
Chpt 16.
- At mail call, Ira Hayes received an imposing package: a commemorative sheet of flagraiser stamps signed by President Truman, Commandant Vandegrift, and John Bradley.†
Chpt 17.
- To commemorate it, Felix de Weldon had struck a twenty-five-foot statue of the six boys.†
Chpt 17.commemorate = mark by some ceremony or observation
- The gigantic work of art it had inspired—the world's tallest bronze statue, the only monument in the nation's capital commemorating World War II—continued to take shape in Washington.†
Chpt 18.commemorating = marking by some ceremony or observation
- Within days, thousands of citizens petitioned the U.S. Postal Service for a commemorative stamp to honor The Photograph.†
Chpt Aft.commemorative = in honor of
Definitions:
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(1)
(commemorate) to honor or remember someone or something -- especially through a ceremony or symbol
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)