Example sentences for: commemorates

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

  • The nearby Nelson Monument, an elegant tower 30 m (98 ft) high, commemorates the famous naval victory at Trafalgar in 1805.

  • An obelisk in the forest commemorates the event.

  • Outside the Cabinet building on Front Street is the Cenotaph, which commemorates Bermuda’s dead of the two World Wars.

  • This figure of a true working man commemorates the day in February 1941 when the dock workers rose up in protest against the Nazi deportation of the Jews.

  • Hanukkah commemorates the victory in 165 B.C. of a small band of Jews, led by Judas Maccabaeus, over the Greeks who ruled Palestine at the time.


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