How to Use commemoration in a Sentence

commemoration

noun

• Several well-known celebrities attended the commemoration.
• Last year, Kate led the commemorations with the Welsh Guards at a barracks near Windsor.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• For him, this night on ∄’s dancefloor was a celebration of life, not a commemoration of death.
  — Caleb Larson, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One of Selma’s main economic drivers has always been the tourism that comes from the Bloody Sunday commemoration events.
  — Stryens-Fernandes, al, 29 Mar. 2023
• The commemoration was intended to show support for the victims of the Hamas attack in Israel in October.
  — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Juneteenth is the nation’s oldest commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, and the Milwaukee celebration is one of the oldest in the country.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023
• And yet, this kind of commemoration of King conveniently misses the point.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• And although the holiday is the main event, there are several important commemorations leading up to the holy day.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 20 Feb. 2023
• Bob Baker Day started in 2015 as a commemoration of Baker, who passed away the previous year.
  — Scott Feinblatt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz marked the commemoration by drawing parallels with the impact of the war on Ukraine on world markets.
  — Sam Mednick, Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2022
• The dual suicide bombing killed at least 95 people and wounded dozens of others attending a commemoration for the late Gen. Qassem Soleiman.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Jan. 2024
• But the commemoration also serves as an unspoken reminder that such diplomatic breakthroughs have become a thing of the past.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Every year around the end of February, the anniversary of the disaster, a commemoration occurs.
  — Aida Alami, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• This commemoration will mark the first time a sitting Vice President has hosted a celebration of this kind.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Sep. 2023
• So, not to have the traditional Russian public viewing of the body and then basically a commemoration of the graveside.
  — CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
• In Antakya, the capital of the southern province of Hatay, angry crowds jostled with police as officials were led to the commemorations.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• Such commemorations are playing against a backdrop of rising antisemitism around the world.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2023
• Until recently, the way activists in Hong Kong observed the June 4 massacre offered a striking contrast with the absence of any commemoration on the mainland.
  — Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2022
• As time has passed, a culture of commemoration has become embedded into many facets of public life.
  — Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024