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Example sentences for: commendation

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

The CPSC presented the industry with a Commendation for Product Safety in 1996 for its cooperation, and commission Chairwoman Ann Brown boasted about its relationship with the bed makers.
Somewhere, sometime, speakers of English must bestow upon Representative Brooks a special commendation for his creation of a description of a planned government agency that would be “a more or less off-the-shelf independent, stand-alone, self-supporting operation for covert operations.”
Such a discovery in a morning paper would put him in a very good mood and sometimes he would even drop a quick note of commendation to the author.
agreeable, delightful, respectable (often used in vague commendation by those who are not nice...)
As a pastel practitioner myself, but furtively sharing many of Hawkins' prejudices and hunches about computational modelling in neuroscience, I am caught between commendation and consternation.