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commemorates

vb. (en-third-person singular of: commemorate)

Usage examples of "commemorates".

If we wanted to conceal the noble action this purse commemorates, we should not expose it thus to view.

The building commemorates the French missionary explorer, Pere Guy LaSueur, whose family name was perpetually misspelled by the unlettered settlers who followed him two centuries later to this part of the Middle West.

It commemorates a pestilent tumour named Shannet, who disfigured the face of this planet.

The bronze plate bears a special tribute to the foresight of Joliet, but it commemorates first of all the dwelling of the frail body and valorous soul of Father Marquette, the first European within the bounds of the city of Chicago.

Monsieur Chevelier (as we may as well call him, since "Chevelier Bay" commemorates this spelling in the Ten Thousand Islands) was probably the first large-scale commercial hunter in that region of egret and other species killed for their decorative plumes.

People visiting the area for the first time search for the park, but the name commemorates the park which occupied the site before a Victorian developer saw its potential.