Commemorate in example sentence
But May 4 is too important to ignore or suppress, so Chinese President Xi Jinping had to commemorate the occasion, somewhat diffidently, by calling for “Chinese youth of the new era” to be “brave in their struggles” and live up to “the spirit of May 4.”Even as he said this, student dissidents at Peking University were being arrested for expressing subversive ideas that might upset the official celebrations.