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Example sentences for: commemorate

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Across Victoria Street from the bus terminal is Victoria Park, originally a children’s playground but later landscaped to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.
Statues nearby commemorate those who gave their lives.
The park was named to commemorate the freeing of the slaves in 1848.
The principal monument from that era is the Temple of Marquis Wu (Wuhouci), a complex of halls and gardens in the southern suburbs built to commemorate the kingdom’s prime minister.
I end my e-mail as I began it, by asking if the author truly believes that a few chicken wings given to black preachers, a few honorable mentions and awards to a couple of black poets, or visits and speeches to commemorate historic memorials and visionaries within the black community are enough to lead blacks to rally behind a president who has allowed our community to lose whatever gains were given to us by a browbeaten Congress of the war-torn 1960s.