Example sentences for: commemorating

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

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

  • On the rue du Monument is a granite cross commemorating the wooden cross that Jacques Cartier planted on behalf of his French sovereign in front of a bemused audience of Iroquois.

  • Farther north along the coast, just south of the small town of Aguada, is a monument commemorating the landing of Cristóbal Colón on the island in 1493.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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