commence
verb (used with or without object)
will have commenced
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future perfectof commence.future perfect
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
Example Sentences
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The last U. S. marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before.
From Time Magazine Archive
You are covered with sweat, but you have a long walk, you will arrive too late, supper will have commenced.
From Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by David W. Bartlett
When the curtain rises on a new order of things, the age of Paganism has passed away, and the period of the Middle Ages will have commenced.
From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield
Their advance in extended formation will have commenced at about 1,000 yards, or earlier.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various
By that time, the auction will have commenced at the Royal Exchange, in King Street.
From Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
