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How to use commend in a sentence

26 example sentences · verb, noun

Commend means to congratulate or reward. Example: “The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.”

Examples of commend by meaning

verbTo congratulate or reward.

  • The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.

verbTo praise or acclaim.

  • The new law has little to commend it: it even worsens the legal certainty of the nation.

verbTo entrust or commit to the care of someone else.

  • After being imprisoned, I had to commend my kids to my mom's safekeeping.

More sentences with commend

  • To sidetrack for a moment, let me commend this team for their outstanding efforts.From the entry sidetrack
  • Though the result wasn't what we were hoping for, I have to commend the performance of the team, never giving up until the end.From the entry performance
  • Max Beerbohm so commends to lady novelists, and which has so often been taken by Mr.2021 February 17, E. M. Forster, Delphi Complete Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, →ISBN. From the entry dahabieh
  • Captain Mark heard about it; and dropped in after school to commend his protege.2011, John Rogers, Clara Nickerson Boden, The Cut of Her Jib, page 82. From the entry honest-to-goodness
  • For a detailed search of a small area, however, the jackstay search has much to commend it.1998, British Sub-aqua Club, Sport diving: the British Sub-Aqua Club diving manual. From the entry jackstay search
  • "I would like to first of all commend all of the police officers today. . . .1997 August 30, John Kifner, “Thousands Call on City Hall To Confront Police Brutality”, in New York Times, retrieved 08 May 2015. From the entry take the bait
  • My point was not to commend but to expose her, and her way of thinking.1982 December 18, Andrea Loewenstein, “Soap Author Responds”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5. From the entry program
  • I wish you had commended the Negro sit-inner and demonstrators for their sublime courage.1963, Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. From the entry sit-inner
  • President Obama is to be commended for insisting on greater “civilogue” in this country in his State of the Union address.2011 January 27, Erica Brown, “Calculations of the Spirit”, in Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. From the entry civilogue
  • Proud of yourself, for ruining Mummy′s life?” I was careful to use the insipid falsetto the experts commend.2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, published 2010, unnumbered page. From the entry mummy
  • For a campaign document presented in the disguise of economic or sociological literature, commend us to Frances A.1916 July 27, ““Straight America!” or What?”, in South Bend News-Times, volume XXXIII, number 209, South Bend, Ind., page 4. From the entry chairmaness
  • London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades.2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: London Liverpool Street - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47. From the entry beat off
  • Well, almost no one: according to one story, a polite lady commended the good doctor for not including swear words in the dictionary.2015, R.L.G. Berlin (15 April 2015), "Happy birthday to Johnson's dictionary", Economist, (retrieved 2017-10-23; archived from the…. From the entry the good doctor
  • He was commended for his work, and there is no suggestion that if he had eschewed all coat trailings his success would have been greater.2010, David Burnett-James, Ravel: Illustrated Lives Of The Great Composers, →ISBN. From the entry coat trailing
  • Williams . . . commended his "search for some way of talking about human value, human depth and three-dimensionality, that doesn't depend on God."2009 May 28, Stephen Adams, “Philip Pullman helps understanding of theology, says Archbishop of Canterbury”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved…. From the entry three-dimensionality
  • This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place.2006, Ibrahim John Werrema, Tanzanians to the Promised Land: After Forty Years, page 34. From the entry unipartyism
  • A handful of women did join the Tianzu hui; in Xiangling county five were commended, along with six men, for their extraordinary dedication.2005, Dorothy Ko, “The Body Inside Out: The Practice of Fangtzu, 1900s–1930s”, in Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of…. From the entry Xiangling
  • Now, as the hay-fever season approaches its best months, we commend to your attention a man who’s about tops in his a-choosen field.1965 August 2, “Gesundheit, Everybody”, in Leroy A. Simms, editor, The Huntsville Times, volume 56, number 133, Huntsville, Ala., →ISSN…. From the entry sneezery
  • Taking elements commended to his notice by some similarity of function or feeling, the dream-worker combines them in one image or act.1955, William York Tindall, “The Trotting Mouse”, in The Literary Symbol, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 168. From the entry dreamworker
  • Other conditions being equal, oil-firing has much to commend it on long runs, and the firebox equipment needed is of a relatively simple construction.1945 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 330. From the entry oil firing
  • They also commended me to him.1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “Outcaste”, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the…. From the entry stripling
  • The Kingdom of eSwatini would also like to commend the leadership of the new Secretary-General, who is committed to transforming the UN to be fit for the 21st century.2017 September 20, Statement by His Majesty King Mswati II Head of State of the Kingdom of Swaziland on the occasion of the General Debate…. From the entry Eswatini
  • The Buddha not only commended celibacy as an ideal but also knit it into the fabric of monastic life through the disciplinary code of the Vinaya.2013, William M. Johnston, Encyclopedia of Monasticism, →ISBN. From the entry incelibacy

Meaning of commend

  1. verb To congratulate or reward.
  2. verb To praise or acclaim.
  3. verb To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.

Full definition of commend

Questions about commend in a sentence

How do you use commend in a sentence?
Commend is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The schoolboy was commended for raising the alarm about the burning building.”
What is a short sentence with commend?
“They also commended me to him.”
What does commend mean?
Commend means to congratulate or reward.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commend (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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