Example sentences for: commemorating

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

  • In the street adjacent is a stone tablet commemorating a tragedy: During an Easter procession in 1844, the collapse of a wall killed 414 people.

  • And groups have lobbied for the issue of a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the 150 th anniversary of the calamity.

  • A piece commemorating the 50 th anniversary of the Marshall Plan notes that while it was a noble idea, it also had a political purpose: to prevent Soviet domination of Europe.

  • The dispersal began out at Grand-Pré, now a national historic park commemorating the Acadians’ resilience.

  • 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.


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