Sentence examples for cross commemorates from inspiring English sources

The stone cross commemorates six men from Chilworth, outside Southampton, who died in the Great War and seven in the Second World War.

No cross commemorates the many Native Americans who died in the Spanish conquest of New Mexico.As the long stream of tiny candles reaches the cross, what began rambunctiously ends quietly.

The cross commemorates the men of the 51st Highland Division who fell at High Wood in July 1916.

A cross commemorates the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

The knight in the coat of arms holds a shield with a double-barred cross, commemorating the conversion to Catholicism of Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, who later became King Władysław II Jagiełło of Poland.

As we went around, first seeing a vibrant flower market, then the modern restaurants surrounding the Old Market Square — a place Flaubert himself must have strolled — then the cross commemorating Joan of Arc's death with the Seine in the distance behind it, it felt as if we were spinning through the centuries, time simultaneously standing still and racing past.

A few miles south along an isolated intersection, my companions and I had come across a tall stone cross commemorating where, in 1804, Napoleon encountered Pope Pius VII, on his way to Paris to bless Napoleon's coronation as emperor of France — this, of course, before he had Pius imprisoned in luxurious apartments in the Château de Fontainebleau.

Prior to 1903, a simple wooden cross commemorated the battle site, located on the so-called Buchbuhl, a hill overlooking the village, and the plains to the southeast, where much of the fighting occurred.

It would be great if policy makers could do theirs". A cross commemorating the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sits in a park in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 16, 2018.

In Montana he notices how the white crosses commemorating fatal car crashes "thicken noticeably around Indian places".

Nearby in the affluent hilltop Velania district, pause on Martyrs' Hill, where Rugova is buried and low-key wooden crosses commemorate the war dead.