Sentence examples for commemorate mostly from inspiring English sources

Inside the front entrance, several trophy cases filled with pictures and other mementos commemorate mostly unsuccessful athletic teams, and a big bulletin board lists the colleges where the current seniors have been admitted.

Darwin Day, conceived as a way to promote science on the 202nd anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth — he was born Feb. 12, 1809 — had until this time been commemorated mostly by those inclined to science, at natural history museums, by secular humanist groups and in university biology departments.

Mr. Glenn, attending numerous events in Washington to celebrate his first flight, joked that he was commemorating the event mostly by talking about it.

The shrine contains the remains of some of those commemorated, but is mostly a symbolic destination for relatives to pay respects.

Mostly, it commemorates the wealth destruction that Motorola shareholders have suffered at his hands.

Today, as on previous Fridays, the crowds assembled at scores of makeshift shrines to commemorate the hundreds of Rumanians, mostly young people, who were killed in the days of street fighting that followed Mr. Ceausescu's flight from the capital on Dec. 22.

October Journey (1973) consists mostly of poems commemorating her personal heroes, including Harriet Tubman, Gwendolyn Brooks, and her father.

And in "Aus Italien" the young Richard Strauss commemorates a visit to Italy, mostly using the portentous gestures of late German Romanticism but finding local color in a quotation from Luigi Danza's "Funiculi, Fanicula" in the finale.

Police have said the dead and wounded included mostly shoppers and people commemorating the birth of Imam Ali, a key figure in Shiite Islam.

Palestinians have commemorated it every year since then, mostly peacefully, in honor of the people who died and the land that is still lost.

"They were so unprofessional," said Jaroslaw Mensfelt, spokesman for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, a vast, eerie complex that covers nearly 500 acres and commemorates the slaughter of 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, but also thousands of Roma, homosexuals, conscientious objectors, and Soviet and German political prisoners.