Sentence examples for commemorate as from inspiring English sources

"They don't commemorate as much in Belgium as they do in Britain".

Like the mythical magpie, we have collected objects to beautify and commemorate as long as we, as a species, have been able to beautify and commemorate.

The first shot in what historians may someday commemorate as the Great Pizza War was fired by Domino's in late 2009.

On Friday, April 6, 1327, during Easter mass in the Church of St. Claire in Avignon, Francesco ­Petrarca beheld the woman he would commemorate as Laura, and irrevocably fell in love.

The topography was rendered yet more complicated by the presence of an underground stream and by the discovery of an unmarked African-American cemetery from the 19th century, which the university wants to preserve and commemorate as part of the new construction.

Is it Gray's epitaph on himself (as the whole poem might be an elegy to himself) or does it commemorate, as sometimes supposed, the "stone-cutter poet?" Like the inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier, it celebrates noble obscurity, but its resonant memorial would not, of course, exist without language and literacy.

That may seem like, well, overkill, but the Somme, like Gettysburg, Gallipoli and other battles stretching back to Thermopylae, will continue to be commemorated as long as fortitude under fire continues to be admired.

Columbia Masterworks (now Sony Classical) commemorated them as well, releasing the video soundtrack in a six-volume, 17-LP set.

The memory of those who have fallen in war will be commemorated as the annual Poppy Appeal begins today.

It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotation to God Almighty.

(June 4, or 6/4, is the day generally commemorated as the anniversary of the military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square movement).