How to Use commemoration in a Sentence

commemoration

noun
  • Several well-known celebrities attended the commemoration.
  • They could be struck with the image of the bridge on one side and a commemoration on the other.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Last year, Kate led the commemorations with the Welsh Guards at a barracks near Windsor.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The dance is a commemoration of sorts, of what happened here in the past, but it’s also a celebration for the present and the future.
    Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 May 2022
  • The City’s role in the commemoration will be to highlight and support the number of programs taking place during the year.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The scene of the crime and the shape of the commemoration recalled another murder, from 2016, which had sparked Korea’s version of the #MeToo movement.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • These are just a few of the names of children who were murdered at Auschwitz that were listed in a recent, online commemoration.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 Apr. 2024
  • That same courage and commitment are needed today, and this commemoration is a call up to both.
    Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 19 Feb. 2023
  • While the commemoration focused on the Pittsburgh attack, there were reminders of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
    Peter Smith The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • During each day of Kwanzaa, one of the candles is lit in commemoration of each of the seven principles.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The announcement comes on the one-month commemoration of the wildfire, which killed at least 115 people and displaced thousands more.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • What hadn't struck me, in my capacity as a white guy from the suburbs, is that some people view the film and its commemoration as raw bigotry.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
  • For him, this night on ∄’s dancefloor was a celebration of life, not a commemoration of death.
    Caleb Larson, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The flight is one of several that are taking veterans to France for the commemoration.
    CBS News, 1 June 2024
  • For Patrick Schenkelberg, this was the first commemoration without his father, Clayton, who died in April at age 103.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Marc Porter, Christie’s head of restitution, said the sales would involve a commemoration of Mr. Grünbaum’s life.
    Graham Bowley, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The championing of the rights of people with Down Syndrome must not be limited to a single day of commemoration.
    Elyssa Koren, National Review, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Over the last decade, Koch had his eye on one day attending the Pearl Harbor commemoration ceremonies in Hawaii.
    John Benson, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Cultural advocates have been leading the push for the commemoration, as part of an effort to honor the city's hip-hop roots.
    Justine Browning, EW.com, 18 July 2022
  • Its organizers made clear that the march was not a commemoration, but a reassertion of the demands made at the memorial in 1963.
    Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Anniversary Straight Bourbon Whiskey is, as the name implies, a commemoration of 15 years of this video game franchise.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The day of commemoration ended with a candlelight vigil led by Democrats on the Capitol steps for the assault's victims.
    Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Still, some people were determined to visit the park and make their own small gestures of commemoration.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 4 June 2022
  • Just sitting around, having been preserved all these years later for commemoration and future shoots like the one in MaXXXine.
    Paul Schrodt, Vulture, 28 June 2024
  • Since her grandmother’s death in 2016, Melody Adams said the May commemoration was the only event grand enough to match her contributions.
    Tiana Woodard, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
  • There will be a commemoration in Munich, with the presidents of both Germany and Israel set to attend.
    Paul Newberry, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The end of the year is a time for celebration, but also reflection and commemoration.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Tuesday's event marked one of the last nature commemoration ceremonies for Hutchinson and Hurst, with both of their terms in office coming to an end.
    Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In the years since, the church and community have regularly held commemoration services.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This new project in commemoration was something Wolle wanted to share with an image maker who demonstrated the ability to traverse the dimension of Black culture with a unified visual profile of softness and reflection.
    Essence, 16 Sep. 2024

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