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
• The rafts of prayer flags on the slopes above Laya are not commemorations of the lost, exactly.
  — Chris Jones, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• In fact, Juneteenth – which takes place on June 19 – is the oldest commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2021
• By this time next month, the commemoration will be long passed.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 13 May 2021
• Juneteenth is the June 19 commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2021
• The ad kicks off a year of commemoration for Miller Lite, Taylor writes.
  — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
• The government over the years has tried to suppress commemoration of the event.
  — Keith Zhai, WSJ, 6 June 2021
• The league-wide commemoration of the Negro Leagues and the legacy of Black baseball was supposed to be June 27.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 5 July 2020
• Last year, Kate led the commemorations with the Welsh Guards at a barracks near Windsor.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• Biden spoke leading up to the ringing of the church bells at 10:22 a.m., in commemoration of the moment the bomb exploded.
  — al, 11 Sep. 2020
• Across from Mar Mikhail, near the wreckage of Beirut's port, a commemoration was held for the victims of the blast in the presence of some of their relatives.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• The commemoration of Good Friday is a solemn and holy event for Christians.
  — John Thomas Iii | Religion News Service, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Apr. 2021
• Seeing the commemoration of events key to my own coming-of-age was certainly part of the draw for me.
  — Claudia Dreifus, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 24 Dec. 2022
• The shower is thought of as a commemoration of when Zeus met with Danaë, Perseus’ mother, and arrived in a shower of gold.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• An annual commemoration takes place at the former grounds of the camp, which was built in 1941.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The monument sits in the town center and will be part of its commemoration marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
• Pelosi, age 84, traveled to Europe as part of the 80th anniversary commemoration of The Battle of the Bulge.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
• The rare chance for the public to get close to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier falls on its centennial commemoration.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 9 Nov. 2021
• The first Pride parade was in commemoration of the Stonewall Riots, after all.
  — Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 21 June 2021
• The Duke of Sussex addressed former members of the armed forces in a special video played at a poignant commemoration in Berlin on June 15.
  — Simon Perry, People.com, 16 June 2025
• In an Instagram story, Teigen talked more about how deeply painful the one-year commemoration of Jack's death is.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 29 Sep. 2021
• The only kind of commemoration that might be hard to come by is any note of meaningful critique.
  — The Economist, 9 Jan. 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Built in 1997 as part of the city’s millennium commemorations, the memorial is located outside the apartment building where Cissi lived with her parents and brother.
  — Dan Fellner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025