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Example sentences for "commencement"

Lexicographically close words:
commemorations; commemorative; commen; commence; commenced; commencements; commencer; commencerent; commences; commencing
  1. Nervous children who had convulsions while they were teething are susceptible to violent attacks at the commencement of various diseases or during the developmental stage of the eruptive fevers.

  2. The symptoms are retention of urine or a constant dribbling of urine and a straining at stool or pain in the rectum or pelvis, and, of course, the absence of the menses since the commencement of pregnancy.

  3. Cough is the most prominent symptom and it is always present from the commencement of the affection, and apprehensive of this the parents seek medical assistance.

  4. These preliminary skirmishes must not be mistaken for the commencement of labor, otherwise great mischief may be done by harassing the case into a premature delivery which might sacrifice the child.

  5. In the commencement of the disease there is some difference in the symptoms of inflammation of the bladder which arises from the nature and seat of the inflammatory process.

  6. The commencement of a parametritis is not often without distinct symptoms that affect the nervous system.

  7. Blacklead, being nearly pure carbon, is a poor conductor, and a part of the metal of the pan is scraped clean, to form a place for the commencement of the deposit.

  8. The narrow views that had influenced so great a reduction at the peace of 1783, were bitterly apparent at the commencement of hostilities.

  9. A few regular-built Soldiers should always be intermingled with every detachment; a rule that can only be observed by maintaining a sufficient strength during peace, or by a prompt levy on the commencement of hostilities.

  10. At no period of her existence as a Nation, did Britain portend a speedier dissolution, although at none did she ever appear in a more dignified attitude, than at the commencement of 1801.

  11. In the short space of seventeen days from the first commencement of our preparations, we had completely organized and fully equipped a party for interior exploration.

  12. Nothing is more common than to get the withers of horses wrung, or their shoulders and backs galled at the commencement of a journey, and nothing more difficult than to effect a cure of this mischief whilst the animals are in use.

  13. Mr. Scott had employed his time in collecting botanical and geological specimens, and had already made a very fair commencement for our collections in both these departments of science.

  14. Soon after the commencement of the war in 1914 the sea-lines of communication across the English Channel assumed considerable, if not paramount, importance for the transfer of personnel and material from Britain to the Allied forces in France.

  15. In the commencement of his Epistle St. James exhorts his hearers to exercise patience in all the worldly accidents that might befal them; to resign themselves into God's hands, and accept in faith whatever might happen.

  16. It is true; and I hope this interview is the commencement of a durable and firm friendship.

  17. If any doubt had existed in the mind of Wilder as to the accuracy of his prognostics, it would have been solved about the commencement of the morning watch.

  18. Joram received the certificates with the same admirable coolness he had maintained from the commencement and prepared to read them with the most scrupulous care.

  19. The time soon came, in which the threat was to be carried into execution: and this brings us to the commencement of the third and last Punic war.

  20. At the commencement of the fourteenth century, it became a part of the Turkish dominions, and has remained so ever since.

  21. Only on three occasions was the weather too severe for communication between the vessels, and the first of these occurred in the close of December and commencement of January.

  22. At the commencement of the current century, our knowledge of the northern coast of the American continent amounted to a mere fraction.

  23. At the commencement of the war he took sides with Dunmore, and doubtless suggested to the governor the plan of arousing and combining the Indian tribes against the colonists.

  24. This church was built at about the commencement of the last century, and was the finest one in America at that time.

  25. These formed the fibers of the stronger bond of the Articles of Confederation afterward adopted, and may be considered the commencement of the American Union.

  26. The accompanying portrait is from an engraving by St. Memin, an artist who engraved a large number of the distinguished men of our country at about the commencement of the present century.

  27. He was a brigadier general of the Pennsylvania militia at the commencement of the Revolution, but did not enter the regular army.

  28. At the commencement of the Revolution, the convention of North Carolina commissioned him a colonel, and in February, 1777, he was commissioned by Congress a brigadier in the Continental arm.

  29. It would be a pleasant and profitable task to trace the history of Pennsylvania in detail, from the period of Penn's death to the commencement of the war for independence, but our plan and limits forbid it.

  30. At the commencement of a list of "Senescalli de Blackburnshire," occurs the name of "Adam de Dutton, temp.

  31. At the commencement of our narrative he had been for some years a widower, and his son was then absent on foreign travel.

  32. They may in point of style appear at the commencement stiff and stalwart, like the chiselled warriors, whose deeds are generally enveloped in a rude narrative, hard and ponderous as their gaunt and grisly effigies.

  33. Being a passage of some note, and the earliest tradition of the county upon record, we have chosen it as the commencement of a work principally derived from traditionary history.

  34. From the commencement of his life to its close, I have sometimes doubted whether he ever asked anybody's advice about anything.

  35. It was a speech made at the commencement of a campaign, and apparently made for the campaign.

  36. It very much dislikes the commencement of spring, because the warm mid-day sun slightly melts the surface of the snow, and the frost of night converts it into a thin plate of ice.

  37. If the reader will refer to the First Book of the Maccabees, he will find that the Elephant is mentioned at the very commencement of the book.

  38. And this is the more extraordinary, because at the commencement and termination of their history the Dog was esteemed by their masters.

  39. The rate of progress given in the foregoing Table is very different from what was expected previous to the commencement of the works.

  40. The history and development of London local letters since the commencement of the present century is curious.

  41. At the commencement of the Overland Indian Mail Service, in consequence of the absence of railways in France, there was scarcely any difference between the time required to convey correspondence viâ Southampton and viâ Marseilles.

  42. Had France at the commencement of this year, been able to obtain possession of the Duchy of Luxemburg there would not have been an absorption of postage stamps, as those in use are Dutch.

  43. In a work published at the commencement of this year by Messrs.

  44. Skinner Street, extending from Newgate Street to Holborn Hill, was built at the commencement of the present century, to avoid the circuit of Snow Hill.

  45. It was therefore determined to postpone the commencement of a new contract for six months.

  46. Even at the commencement of the present year, before freights had risen so much in consequence of the Abyssinian expedition, the value of coal and coke before it was landed in India was about 50s.

  47. The following Table sets forth the progress made on each side since the commencement of the work.

  48. She leads us to Boscan at the commencement of the sixteenth century.

  49. This commencement leads to the story being told in the form (which might with advantage have been avoided) of a long narrative by the dying man.

  50. This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas; but is marred in the commencement by some of her most stilted writing.

  51. Mrs. Shelley moved into this house shortly after the visit to Claire in Paris, referred to at the commencement of this chapter.

  52. We now have Shakespeare, at the commencement of his twentieth year, a married man, and the father of a child.

  53. Finally, the former died at the close, the latter at the commencement of his fifty-second year.

  54. The next morning after the second day, started to the northwards; we passed a large vlei on the left, six miles from the Koranna station, which is the commencement of the sand-dunes.

  55. That interview was the commencement of the partnership.

  56. At the commencement of Michaelmas term--that is, at the end of October, in the year 1810, I happened one day to sit next to a freshman at dinner.

  57. Commencement of another month of the siege!

  58. A Sikh came in saying other Sikhs were anxious to come; he had deserted at the commencement of the siege.

  59. The firing made more noise than ever I remember; the air being now so clear, as it is the commencement of the cold season, the guns reverberate tremendously.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commencement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alpha; alphabet; attempt; beginning; birth; celebration; ceremonial; ceremony; commencement; conception; convocation; core; creation; dawn; derivation; edge; entrance; establishment; exercise; first; formal; formality; foundation; function; graduation; head; inaugural; inauguration; inception; infancy; initiation; institution; liturgy; mummery; observance; office; oncoming; onset; opening; origin; original; origination; outbreak; outset; performance; provenance; provenience; radical; radix; rise; rite; ritual; root; service; solemnity; source; start; stem; stock; takeoff; taproot; threshold