commemorate
verb (used with object)
to serve as a memorial or reminder of.
had commemorated
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past perfectof commemorate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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For more than 50 years Royal Mail said its Special Stamp programme had commemorated anniversaries and celebrated events relevant to UK heritage and life.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Ms. LaTour’s last days in hospice drew a vigil by the kind of women she had commemorated: pioneering firefighters, ironworkers, carpenters, plumbers and union dissidents.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Sheltering now, nearly 200 miles from her annihilated hometown, Murlykina watched the video of the dismantling of the statue in Manhush that had commemorated Ukraine’s greatest military leader.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
A Facebook account that Dr. Kritee identified as Mr. Bruce’s had commemorated the death of Thich Nhat Hanh, an influential Zen Buddhist master and antiwar activist who died in January.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
Virgil was commanded by Augustus to read aloud to his sister that book of the Eneid in which he had commemorated the virtues and early death of the young Marcellus.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
