Example Sentences

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The greatest of them, Robert Frank, paid her direct homage in “The Americans,” shooting from the same vantage point the New Mexico highway that Lange had memorialized in “An American Exodus.”

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2020

Even before the confirmation from the family, Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime friend of Gregory’s, had memorialized him in a tweet:

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2017

Arriving to watch them play, Howard was delighted to see that the jockeys had memorialized his generosity by ordering their uniforms in Howard red and white, with the Howard signature triangle on them.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Her brothers had memorialized the Home Secretary, and were only on the previous day informed that the law must take its course.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

The regular session had memorialized Congress by joint resolution to submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment and requested Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska to vote for it.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted