How to Use inaugurate in a Sentence

inaugurate

verb

• They inaugurated the new headquarters with a brief ceremony.
• Open for only a few weeks, Alaa could not have picked a worse time to inaugurate a bar.
  — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
• To inaugurate his first drive as a starter, Jackson handed the ball off.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
• Putin will surely be inaugurated for a fifth term in the spring.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
• This inaugurates a five-year deal to broadcast the long-running awards show on CBS.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
• The rockers will follow in the footsteps of U2, who inaugurated the space just weeks ago.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
• Standing at the entryway of the building, the master of macabre rock pulled out a switchblade and sliced a strip of black tape to inaugurate the new attraction.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
• Much of the work is being done in Ahmedabad, where Trump will inaugurate the world's largest cricket stadium.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2020
• The success of the memorial and its rapid embrace by the public helped inaugurate decades of new memorial building on or near the Mall.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
• In his first at-bat with a chance to inaugurate MLB’s 50-50 club, Ohtani clobbered a history-making two-run blast.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• When President Biden was inaugurated in 2021, oil prices were on the rise.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
• Short will be inaugurated May 13, when he will be given the key to Funner and announce his upcoming plans for the city.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
• When Trump was inaugurated, Drudge proclaimed it as nothing less than the restoration of the nation.
  — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020
• The Jupiter is said to have been the first locomotive to pass over these connecting rails which linked the East and West to inaugurate a great step in transportation which was to unite the nation.
  — Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
• British colonists arrived on Roatán in 1638, inaugurating a two-hundred-year battle with the Spaniards.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Lai will succeed Tsai Ing-wen when he is inaugurated in May.
  — Didi Tang, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Not only that, he was inaugurated in the Hebrew year 5777.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
• Part of the problem is that almost no one made good political art the year Trump was inaugurated.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Klinghoffer had planned to inaugurate his stint with Pearl Jam by opening its 2020 tour with a Pluralone set each night and then joining the band to help flesh out the new songs from Gigaton.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
• The steak fry, one of the last statewide events, inaugurates a new phase of the race, attracting less politically active Iowans in addition to the die-hards.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
• That moment inaugurated the racist slavery that set the course of the black experience in this country.
  — Max Cohen, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
• In 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his first term and Sony was still selling floppy disks.
  — Bailey Pennick, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
• And in 2011, Rio’s gondola, also called a cable car, was inaugurated in the favela.
  — Wired, 2 Oct. 2019
• Anderson will be the first chef to inaugurate Gather55 and will be a liaison between other chefs and Hands on Hartford.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• Tesla expects to inaugurate production at a new plant in Austin, Texas, soon.
  — William Boston, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• In the 2000s the era of Network Man is inaugurated, led by tech firms seeking to overthrow the old order with platforms that have millions of connected users.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
• Original Sin leaned into the slasher aspects of the PLL-verse, so this announcement is a cute way to inaugurate spooky season.
  — Vulture, 7 Sep. 2022
• Barack Obama had pledged to shut down the prison as president, and two days after being inaugurated signed an executive order to close it by the end of the year.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 June 2023
• First the postal service inaugurated their own air routes for express shipping.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024