Synonyms

commenced

American

[kuh-menst] / kəˈmɛnst /

adjective

started or begun.

The newly commenced shipping service will provide customers with safer and faster cargo movement.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of commence.

Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of commenced

commence + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Commenced to sing, commenced to sob and sigh, singing and sobbing.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

Commenced snowing 10 A. M. but the wind blew it all away.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

Commenced our march at half-past 8 o’clock, A. M. At noon halted for dinner, a short distance from the boundary line of Kentucky and Tennessee.

From Our Battery The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by Cutter, Orlando P.

Commenced to rain very heavy as we hitched up and it continued until noon, with loud peals of thunder and vivid lightning.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

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