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The last U. S. marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before.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

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

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 Bartlett, David W.

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

In a word, the reign of love and unselfishness will have commenced.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott