Example sentences for: commemorates

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

  • Tibetan in style, this dagoba commemorates a visit by the Dalai Lama in 1651 and measures 36 m (118 ft) in height.

  • I'm not sure what it means that this remark is quoted without comment in the new anthology that commemorates 100 years of the New York Times Book Review . Wilson was saying the Times book section was relentlessly dull.

  • At the end of the Via Sacra, the Arch of Titus commemorates the sack of Jerusalem in a.d. 70.

  • The huge sanctuary, which holds 13,000 worshippers, commemorates the healing powers of Brother André.

  • Across the Tiber, Via della Conciliazione , which cleared the approach to the Basilica of St. Peter from centuries-old congestion, commemorates the `Reconciliation' effected by the Lateran Treaty of 1929.


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