How to Use commence in a Sentence

commence

verb

• The country has commenced preparations for war.
• The festivities will commence with a parade.
• The court commenced criminal proceedings.
• Their contract commences in January.
• Some of retailing's biggest names have fall pre-holiday sales events commencing this week.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
• There is no clear timeline on when construction of the plaza and reassembly of the Smokesax will commence.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 11 May 2022
• The concert will commence at Buckingham Palace and is set to see some of the biggest stars in the world perform.
  — Janine Henni, PEOPLE.com, 3 June 2022
• Production will commence in the spring of 2023 in Greece, Munich and Paris.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2022
• Cornerstone Films will handle worldwide sales and distribution and will commence sales later this year.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 May 2022
• The storied Red River Rivalry will again commence, now with a national title on the line.
  — Dean Ruhl, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
• The repaving and remake of the street was to commence in 2016.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• All of the new growth will commence at the top of each cane.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
• The work is part of a three-year study commenced in 2018.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2019
• Only then do the two shake hands, and the match may commence.
  — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
• At the end of the year, once the layoffs had commenced, upwards of 3,300 staffers a month were on such a plan.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• Tickets for the streams, which commence each night at 7 p.m.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• The breakup is expected to commence in 18 to 24 months.
  — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
• The second phase is expected to commence at the end of May.
  — Byrebecca Gelpi, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2022
• Britain commenced a long process of widening the franchise in 1832.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
• But when there’s grilling to be done, a battle still commences.
  — J. J. Goode, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• But when the match commenced, Jabeur injured her right foot.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• An avalanche of retweets, reshares, and page views soon commenced.
  — Andy Boyle, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2016
• And what happened here gives you an idea of what will commence once that gets put in play.
  — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2017
• As the game commences, each player draws and discards a tile, with the aim of getting four sets and a pair.
  — Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
• Cates explained the rules a second time, and after a few false starts, the game commenced.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• The voting could have commenced at any moment but of course did not.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• The dogs, pets of lodge staff and guests, stuck close to their humans until the dancing commenced.
  — Dina Mishev, Dallas News, 8 July 2019
• The winning team is content to dribble out the shot or game clock as daps and hugs commence.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• Large-scale removal of the debris has not commenced, which could take three to five years to complete the cleanout.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Here's a timeline of what's happening: 4pm: Live music, free games and hockey activities will commence.
  — Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024