Memorial

//məˈmɔːɹi.əl//

"Memorial" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The governor dedicated the memorial to the soldiers who died in the war.

The office held a memorial for him.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors U.S. service members who fought in the Vietnam War.

However, in 2007, this holiday moved to May 4th, while April 29th became the memorial day of Showa, called "Showa no Hi".

Celebrate the revolution memorial day!

I have seen an interesting memorial.

Juggalos, as supporters of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are known, gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during a rally, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, to protest and demand that the FBI rescind its classification of the juggalos as "loosely organized hybrid gang."

They were inscribing the memorial with the soldiers' names.

French President Emmanuel Macron, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the arch, lit the eternal flame that is rekindled every night at the memorial engraved with the words: "Here rests a French soldier who died for the nation."

An American delegation led by Chief of Staff General John Kelly and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joe Dunford visited the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial under gray skies and drizzle, paying respect to the nearly 2,300 war dead buried at the site of the June 1918 Battle of Belleau Wood.

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These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they testify, and are living realities to perpetuate at once the respect entertained by the nation, both for the individual himself and the performance that has entitled him to their gratitude.

Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.

Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart.

a memorial building

There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.

a memorial possession

This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.

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