Example Sentences

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A balcony is going up, roll-up doors are going in and landscaping around a drainage area is commencing.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2024

The board is commencing a search for a permanent nonexecutive board chairman.

From Forbes • Apr. 4, 2013

The board is commencing a search for two or more new independent directors.

From Forbes • Apr. 4, 2013

The event is commencing at 5:00 PM, roughly an hour before the scheduled kickoff of the Sounders away match.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2010

We were travelling in the very worst fever-month, March, when the summer vegetation is commencing to rot, and throw off its poisonous steam.

From Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by Haggard, Henry Rider