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• People often pray the chaplet at 3:00 pm to commemorate Jesus' death.From the entry chaplet
• To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.From the entry pant
• "American Yiddish commemorated this era of poor management with the term "kessel garten", meaning a crowded and disorderly place."From the entry kesselgarten
• Today, a blue plaque on the Jubilee Refreshment rooms at Sowerby Bridge station commemorates him.2021 July 28, Paul Bigland, “Calder line captures picturesque Pennines”, in RAIL, number 936, page 66. From the entry sack
• The term has more of a nuance of marking or commemorating an important occasion.2021 July 24, Tatsuro Sugiura, “Emperor in bind over use of ‘celebrate’ for Tokyo Olympiad”, in The Asahi Shimbun, Osaka: The Asahi…. From the entry olympiad
• Our ancestors were creative in the ways they commemorated historical climactic events.2020, Valerie Trouet, “Winter is Coming”, in Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins…. From the entry hunger stone
• Yes, that was Vice President Spiro Agnew commemorating the "loyalty" of literal traitors.2017 October 8, “Confederacy” (14:45 from the start), in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor)…. From the entry traitor
• Vesak or Visakha is a spring celebration that commemorates Buddha's birth, enlightenment, death, and passing into nirvana.2012, Richard Hughes Seager, Buddhism in America, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry Vesak
• We commemorate the birth of our Scottish National Poet Rabbie Burns on January 25th.2008, Barry Cryer; Graeme Garden, “Burns Night!”, in The Doings of Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea?, London: Preface…. From the entry Burns Night
• Double Tenth National Day 雙十節 commemorates the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising started by Dr.2003, Julie Ju et al., editors, A Brief Introduction to Taiwan, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 202. From the entry Cing
• To commemorate this remarkable ratio, we have a few circular activities.1997, Louise Bock, Susan Guengerich, Hope Martin, “March Celebrations”, in Multicultural Math Fun: Holidays around the Year, Portland…. From the entry Pi Day
• The reigning monarch, King George VI, is commemorated by two express engines—G.W.R.1945 July and August, “Notes and News: Duplicate Locomotive Names”, in Railway Magazine, page 235. From the entry reigning
• On Oct. 26, one of those attacks was commemorated.2024 October 29, Yvonne Krumrey, “Navy apologizes to Angoon community for bombarding village in 1882”, in NPR. From the entry Lingít
• Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 56, photo caption. From the entry bressummer
• Today was her little sister’s birthday, and what better way to commemorate than eating salad brimmed with the freshest of fruits.2020 September, Darcy Encarnacion, “When It Falls”, in Scribbles, volume 1, number 1, Manila: De La Salle University Writers’ Guild, page 14. From the entry fresh
• Tetrarchic rulers were shown wearing them on large gold medallions issued to commemorate their consulships, vicennalias and decennalias.2016, Carol Shaw, The Development of Early Imperial Dress from the Tetrarchs to the Herakleian Dynasty. From the entry tetrarchic
• Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are in India on a state visit to commemorate the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.2013 December 2, “Image of the Day: December 2”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry empress
• He was also commemorated by Mount Gough on Hong Kong island, which is now back in the hands of the Chinese.2012, Joe O'Shea, “Sir Hugh Gough – Limerick's Opium Warlord”, in An Account of Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem: Concerning the affairs of the…. From the entry Mount Gough
• To commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of eliminating the plague, citizens of Yenshui, Taiwan, held a celebration with fireworks.2003, Leland Gregory, Hey, Idiot!, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89. From the entry Yenshui
• The name of this isolated village commemorates a local saint, and means 'Garmon's Church in the Valley of the Ceiriog'.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 256, about Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog. From the entry Llanarmon
• He erected two sizeable monuments in Ili, with inscriptions in Chinese, Manchu, Oirat, and Tibetan, to commemorate his victory.1975, Morris Rossabi, China and Inner Asia: From 1368 to the Present Day, New York: Pica Press, page 148. From the entry Ili
• The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169. From the entry illustratress
• His sacrifice is commemorated in an American folksong.1950 June, “Casey Jones Stamp”, in Railway Magazine, page 420. From the entry folksong
• These commemorate the days when such defences surrounded the villages on all sides to keep off human enemies.1909, Major A. Playfair, The Garos, page 92. From the entry cheval de frise
• Commemorate your relationship with siblings and cousins by buying them their team's newest jersey from your local Adidas or Nike if they're sports fans.2019 December, Nada Abdelkader, “Confused About Holiday Presents? Here's Your Gift Guide”, in Identity, page 14. From the entry soft girl
• But while Zaida was alive we always went for Seder dinner on the first night of Pesach, the Jewish holiday commemorating the Exodus from Egypt.2015 September 22, Dan Burt, You Think It Strange: A Memoir, ABRAMS, →ISBN. From the entry zaida
• A group of Maoists commemorating the 35th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan was violently broken up by police.2011 September 23, Ségolène Malterre, “Modern-day Maoists worry Chinese authorities”, in France 24, archived from the original on 28 Dec…. From the entry Taiyuan
• Since the Oath commemorates the loss of the palanquin, the Gbi Traditional Area decided not to procure another palanquin for the Fiagā in replacement.2000, A. Kodzo Paaku Kludze, Chieftaincy in Ghana, pages 121-122. From the entry palanquin
• Banga, which translates as "huge volume", commemorates the 13th Century slave and Sufi saint Sidi Marzuq, who was frequently aided by a collective of rûwahînes or spirit allies.2019 July 2, “Unquiet Spirits: Ifriqiyya Electrique Interviewed”, in thequietus.com. From the entry adorcism
• Founders and other important people in the history of an institution are commemorated in various ways, such as naming a building or a fund after the person.2016 April 8, Siobhan Brownlie, Mapping Memory in Translation, Springer, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry institutional memory
• Like this menorah, many are on public display in Cuba, but nothing beats Castro showing off his jewish roots by commemorating the holocash with a menorah in Havana.2014 April 2, Fidel Castro – It's the Jews, soc.men. From the entry holocash
• According to local legend she was born in Kuang-yüan, Li county in Szechwan, where a festival commemorating her birth is held on that day at Li-chou.2007, Nigel Cawthorne, Daughter of Heaven, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 5. From the entry Kuang-yüan
• THE FOLLOWING TEXT commemorates the reconstruction and expansion of the main temple of a local cult in Putian District, Fujian Province, located on China’s southeast coast.2005, “Fang Lüe, "Inscription for the Temple of Auspicious Response"”, in Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt, Paul R. Goldin, editors…. From the entry Mulan
• Annual lectures on anatomy were given by the praelectors of the Surgeon’s Guilds in Amsterdam, Leiden, and Delft, and their position was commemorated in official portraits of these lectures.2004, Mary Hollingsworth, Art in World History: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Sharpe Reference, →ISBN, page 342. From the entry praelector
• Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.1975, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China, page 152. From the entry nanking
• There is hardly a week without some saint in it who has to be commemorated, and often there are two in the same week, and sometimes three.1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 43. From the entry saint's day

Meaning of commemorate

1. verb To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
2. verb To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
3. adjective Commemorated.

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How do you use commemorate in a sentence?

Commemorate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.”

What is a short sentence with commemorate?

“The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.”

What does commemorate mean?

Commemorate means to honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.