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Example sentences for: commemorates
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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.