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Example sentences for: commemorating

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The dispersal began out at Grand-Pré, now a national historic park commemorating the Acadians’ resilience.
Stamp collectors moan that the Postal Service issues too many stamps, often commemorating frivolous subjects such as Bugs Bunny, hoping that customers will buy and hold these stamps rather than use them.
After a short distance you’ll arrive at the western wall and a small square, Plazuela de la Rogativa, with a bronze statue commemorating the torchlight religious procession, or rogativa, that saved the city in 1797.
Its present name (Chongqing means “Double Jubilation”) dates from the medieval period, commemorating a lucky streak in the life of the local prince.
The turning point for their relationship was a celebration of Juneteenth Day, a holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned that the Civil War was over and, two and a half years after the fact, that President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation.