Example sentences for: commemorated

How can you use “commemorated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Their sacrifice is commemorated by a monument and museum at the site, together with stones bearing the names of each of those who died on the island of Bali during the struggle for independence (see page 68).

  • The great age of sail is commemorated along the Hyde Street Pier by the majestic lines of the square-rigged ship Balclutha, and the many other exhibits of the National Maritime Museum.

  • Twenty-five of the physicians commemorated were western Europeans or Americans active between 1860 and 1920, years of intensive correlation of bedside and pathological findings, whose names now linger as historical markers.

  • Wayne had the good luck to rule over Westerns, a genre that was set on wide-open land and commemorated the past and dealt in stark moral truths--a genre doomed to grow obsolete, leaving Wayne to dominate the landscape, a proud and lonely warrior.

  • Flights into Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, land on an unexpectedly long runway that has a dramatic history, commemorated neither by plaques nor monuments.


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