Example sentences for: commemoration

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

  • China suppressed commemoration of the 10 th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square uprising.

  • In going each year to the cemetery, we place a stone on the monument, in commemoration of the acts of Joshua and Samuel in giving praise to the Lord.

  • George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.

  • In Canada, the National Post reported Thursday on a commemoration ceremony for the 229 people who died last Sept. 2 when Swissair Flight 111 crashed in St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia.

  • As you will recall, I make a partial exception for certain forms of religious (or civic-religious) commemoration at the very beginning of my chapter on "lessons": "Remembering the Holocaust, especially for Jews, needs no pragmatic justification.


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