Example sentences for: commemorated

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

  • 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.

  • Its principal heroes--King Vittorio Emanuele II, Garibaldi, Mazzini, Cavour --are commemorated in the names of the main streets and piazzas of virtually every city and town in Italy, not least in Rome.

  • Or Kurosawa, whose death would once have been commemorated by retrospectives around the country?

  • Bavaud's martyrdom had been shrouded in silence by the Swiss authorities during the war, but it was now to be commemorated with a plaque on the house in Neuchâtel where he was born.

  • 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.


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