Sentence examples for was commemorating from inspiring English sources
verb
To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
- On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
On this occasion she was commemorating not personal sorrows but public ones.
Soon he was commemorating all kinds of art world events -- past and present, local and international.
In choosing Churchill for the new note, the Bank was commemorating the former prime minister's "bulldog spirit", Carney said.
Later, he repeated the rituals at another household, which was commemorating the seventh anniversary of a grandfather's death.
"It was very important to be there," Ms. White said, adding that her group was commemorating the second anniversary of the so-called saffron revolution in Myanmar.
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 anniversary was commemorated with two flavours of biography.
This episode was commemorated in a hilarious poem by the political parodist Dmitry Bykov.
The massacre was commemorated by a monument erected in 1895 at nearby Arnolds Park.
Hill was commemorated in a famous ballad bearing his name, written in 1925 by poet Alfred Hays.
The Cedar IV launched in 1963 was so successful that it was commemorated on a stamp.
