commemorate
verb (used with object)
to serve as a memorial or reminder of.
were commemorating
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past progressiveof commemorate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“We were commemorating lots of activists,” said Baizan, 27.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
On the same Holocaust Remembrance Day that their younger counterparts were commemorating, Catholic and Protestant clergy gathered around a table at the Duncairn.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
Hailing from a country where past conflict is often a prologue, Ukrainian Americans were commemorating one conflict while being mired in another.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2022
Sure, fans were commemorating the late country star, who died from complications of COVID-19, by spinning his early-’90s honky-tonk classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020
It would appear that he duly estimated the importance of the event they were commemorating, yet was not of a habit of mind that overestimated anything.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
