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Example sentences for: commemorates

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No trace remains of the prison stormed in 1789; even the column in the center commemorates a later revolution, that of 1830.
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.
In front of the building, the Memorial of the Unknown Soldier commemorates all Greeks who have fallen in war.
Just inside the southern part of the ancient wall there is another street that has escaped renaming, although it commemorates a Fascist victory in the Italian-Ethiopian war.
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.