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.
• All of the new growth will commence at the top of each cane.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
• Only then do the two shake hands, and the match may commence.
  — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
• The voting could have commenced at any moment but of course did not.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• And what happened here gives you an idea of what will commence once that gets put in play.
  — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2017
• The second phase is expected to commence at the end of May.
  — Byrebecca Gelpi, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2022
• It is set to commence this month and will be completed by late fall.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 21 July 2023
• 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
• But when there’s grilling to be done, a battle still commences.
  — J. J. Goode, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• An avalanche of retweets, reshares, and page views soon commenced.
  — Andy Boyle, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2016
• Opening statements in both cases could commence by the end of this week.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2021
• But a game umpire needed to spot the ball before play could commence.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2022
• But when the match commenced, Jabeur injured her right foot.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• One thing the projections will not offer is a sense of when rate cuts might commence.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Tickets for the streams, which commence each night at 7 p.m.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Cates explained the rules a second time, and after a few false starts, the game commenced.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
• Firms engaging in this sort of business do not wait for strikes to commence.
  — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
• The location was still up in the air even after shooting commenced.
  — Jared Cowan, Los Angeles Magazine, 15 June 2018
• The dogs, pets of lodge staff and guests, stuck close to their humans until the dancing commenced.
  — Dina Mishev, Dallas News, 8 July 2019
• 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
• The third stage is the critical one of commencing a new day to day existence.
  — Daniel Geary, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2015
• Dryden added that the west side of the stadium is almost done, and that work on the east side will commence soon.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 July 2022
• There is no detail, as yet, on the date from which travel might commence.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• That’s the day when teams commence with their annual purge of head coaches.
  — oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2021
• Lamont has not yet said when that phase might commence.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 1 Sep. 2020
• Nobody wore a mask or appeared to be going at half speed once drills commenced.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024