How to Use commemoration in a Sentence
commemoration
noun- Several well-known celebrities attended the commemoration.
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The championing of the rights of people with Down Syndrome must not be limited to a single day of commemoration.
— Elyssa Koren, National Review, 21 Mar. 2022 -
In the years since, the church and community have regularly held commemoration services.
— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024 -
The image below was a commemoration of the discovery of carbon nanotubes at NEC.
— Thomas Coughlin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Ono was making an offering, providing a souvenir, encouraging a kind of commemoration.
— Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022 -
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 -
Last year, Kate led the commemorations with the Welsh Guards at a barracks near Windsor.
— Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024 -
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 | Sstuart@al.com, 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 -
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 | Sstuart@al.com, 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 -
What hadn't struck me, in my capacity as a white guy from the suburbs, is that some people view the film and its commemoration as raw bigotry.
— Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024 -
For him, this night on ∄’s dancefloor was a celebration of life, not a commemoration of death.
— Caleb Larson, Billboard, 26 Oct. 2022 -
The flight is one of several that are taking veterans to France for the commemoration.
— CBS News, 1 June 2024 -
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 -
Cultural advocates have been leading the push for the commemoration, as part of an effort to honor the city's hip-hop roots.
— Justine Browning, EW.com, 18 July 2022 -
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 -
Anniversary Straight Bourbon Whiskey is, as the name implies, a commemoration of 15 years of this video game franchise.
— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2022 -
Still, some people were determined to visit the park and make their own small gestures of commemoration.
— Nectar Gan, CNN, 4 June 2022 -
Just sitting around, having been preserved all these years later for commemoration and future shoots like the one in MaXXXine.
— Paul Schrodt, Vulture, 28 June 2024 -
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 -
There will be a commemoration in Munich, with the presidents of both Germany and Israel set to attend.
— Paul Newberry, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022 -
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 -
Righini says there’s a strange feeling to the commemoration this year.
— Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 5 June 2024 -
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
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