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Example sentences for: commemorate

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Some monuments celebrate heroes, commemorate victories, honor kings or saints.
Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison will commemorate the rerelease of the film Yellow Submarine by playing a concert on a yellow submarine while floating down a river in Liverpool.
Qurban Bairam (Eid El-Adha) is a time when many Muslims travel to Mecca (their holy city) to commemorate the slaying of Abraham.
The building was originally a barracks building but was suitably refurbished by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1923 to commemorate the Scots who fell in World War I; the halls of remembrance now also commemorate those who died in World War II and all other conflicts.
The original plan was for a crew of nine or 10 people to take the Vlkingur , a replica of a Viking vessel, to Newfoundland, Canada, and to New York "to commemorate the 1,000 th anniversary of Leifur Eiríksson's discovery of North America."