Sentence examples for We commemorated from inspiring English sources

Last year, we commemorated the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery.

(Danièle Huillet died in 2006; at the time, we commemorated her and discussed her work).

ONCE, we commemorated the dead, left out offerings to feed them and lamps to guide them home.

Over the past fortnight, as we commemorated the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the Kagame government's foreign policy was all but ignored.

Mr. Reid was not expressing sadness but a gleeful opportunism that Americans were still judging one another by the color of their skin, rather than — as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose legacy we commemorated on Monday, dreamed — by the content of their character.

The Labour MP Tom Watson said: "If this is accurate it shows that in the week we commemorated the victims of 9/11, the victims of our own terrorist attack have had their memories insulted in a callous and inhuman way".

Last week the Shias' Ashura festival commemorated the martyrdom of Imam Hossein.

More than 700 plaques on the wall commemorated married couples who had met there.

He was a commemorated WWII combat medic with the 77th Division who served in the Pacific.

She's by far the best commemorated of all British figures across the land.

Something is commemorated - if that's the word - in this etymology of places.