Silvestro in Lacu, commemorates the existence of the primeval lake; while the legend of the casting ashore of Romulus and Remus on the slope of the Palatine points to the gradual desiccation of the spot.
This obelisk has a special interest because it commemorates one of the most beautiful and touching examples of self-sacrifice which the annals of paganism afford.
At stated intervals we celebrated together the touching feast that commemorates our Saviour's dying love, and the oneness of Christians in Him.
To the Sir Rowland Lytton who died in 1582 (see above) there is a fine brass with effigy, which also commemorates his wives Margaret and Anne, and his three children.
Cowper's stepmother is buried in Bath, and a tablet on the walls of the cathedralcommemorates her memory.
He was buried in the breach of the fortress where he had met his death, and a monument in St Paul's cathedralcommemorates Craufurd and Mackinnon, the two generals killed at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo.
An inscription below the steps in front of the church commemorates the translation of a miraculous image of the Virgin hither in 1714.
Maria della Vittoria) commemorates the liberation of Vienna from the Turks in 1683, by Sobieski, king of Poland.
The Via delle Botteghe Oscure, commemorates the dark shops which in mediæval times occupied the lower part of the circus, as they do now that of the Theatre of Marcellus.
Of two inscriptions, one commemorates the raising of Orsini; the other, a prophecy of St. Dominic, as to the evil end of two monks who deserted their convent.
Maria Liberatrice, built on the site of the house of Numa and the convent of the Vestals, commemorates by its name a curious legend of the fourth century.
Alessandro de Medici (1605), to which one is inclined to grudge so much space, considering that the pope itcommemorates only reigned twenty-six days.
Neither tomb nor scutcheoncommemorates him here,--but the cathedral itself is his monument.
There is a tomb in a corner of it that commemorates Dr.
Another stone in the Maxwelton house commemorates the marriage of Robert Laurie and Jean Riddel, the parents of the heroine of the song,--this Robert being the champion of Bacchus who won the Whistle from the noble Danish toper.
It commemorates the fact that, by letters patent delivered by Charles VI.
The Kalendar of the Byzantine Church, on November 22, commemorates "Philemon, Apostle.
The second era probably commemorates the visit of Hadrian to Gaza.
A sixteenth century stained-glass window (the first in the south aisle) commemorates this episode in the life of the saint (photograph below).
In one place in the abbey there is a rude inscription, in which a French architect commemorates the part he has borne in constructing the building.
Another most touching picture of Hervey's commemorates a later scene of Scottish devotion and martyr endurance scarcely below that of the days of the Covenant.
Among the rock-cut tombs of El-Kab, where the princes of Thebes held their court in the days of the Hyksos, is one which commemorates the name of a certain Baba.
The young archer, causing water to spring from the rock by a shot from his bow, marks the miraculous cessation of prehistoric dearth, as the bull leaping from a skiff perhaps commemorates a primaeval deluge.
Though King John loved not churches, he lies in the middle of the choir, where his effigy remains, the earliest one of a royal personage in England; a beautiful chantry chapel commemorates Prince Arthur, the elder brother of Henry VIII.
This brass still exists, andcommemorates Maria Gore, Priorissa, 1436, attired simply as a widow.
Ordericus Vitalis, himself of the fraternity of St. Evroul, commemorates and of course praises the fact.
The spot where the battle came off has ever since been known as Donnelly's Hollow, and a neat monument there erected commemorates the Dublin man's pluck and skill.
Bacon was guilty of this enormity, while Westmacott perpetrated the equally tasteless allegorical group over the west door, which commemorates the younger Pitt.
Facing us is a large Jacobean monument, which commemorates Edward Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and was put up by his widowed Countess, whose own effigy lies beside that of her husband.
The chapel—it is nothing more—of “Domine quo vadis” commemorates the interview.
The tower known as Severndroog on Shooter's Hill commemorates the taking of the fort of that name on the coast of Malabar.
The southern banks of the Thames, being low and flat, originally were a swamp, continually overflowed by the river--Lambeth Marsh commemorates that condition of the locality.
The mother abbey of this great order, founded by Saint-Norbert in the twelfth century, commemorates in its name the great agricultural work done by him and his disciples.
An octagonal tower of the chapel remains, but a lighthouse supersedes the pious labors of the priest; a column near by commemorates a visit of the Russian Czar to the summit of the hill in 1814.
It was here that the Prince of Orange landed in 1688, and a monument in the market-place commemorates the event, the identical block of stone on which he first stepped being preserved.
In the large east window the stained glass commemorates St. Sidwell, a lady murdered in the eighth century at a well near Exeter by a blow from a scythe at the instigation of her stepmother, who coveted her property.
The monument probably commemorates an unknown benefactress whose corpse lies elsewhere, but who ordered her heart sent to the spot she loved best.
Trafalgar Square commemorates Nelson's death and greatest victory, the Nelson Column standing in the centre, with Landseer's colossal lions reposing at its base.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commemorates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
