centennial - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • flight: This website celebrates the centennial of flight as well as providing information about the men and women who made it possible.

Possessives

  • vegas: Doing away with las vegas ' centennial for broadband video start of play.

Converse of object

  • celebrate: St Louis celebrates the centennial of the 1904 World's Fair.
  • mark: This year marks the birth centennial of my mentor, Josei Toda, the second president of the Soka Gakkai.
  • commemorate: The lofty Fontaine des Trois Ordres commemorates the centennial of the French Revolution.

Modifies a noun

  • celebration: In 2003 we will honor the leading Scottish mathematician of the 20th century, at the Hodge centennial celebrations.
  • anniversary: It was my good fortune to be invited to Japan on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of George Ohsawa's birth.
  • year: Friday 8 October 1999, 7.30pm: Conway Hall A meeting to mark the centennial year of the birth of Noel Coward.
  • history: Griffiths, N.E.S. The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1993.
  • birthday: The exposition celebrated 100 years of Tennessee's statehood a year after its true centennial birthday of 1896.
  • timescales: Parameterisation Development Climate models run over decadal or centennial timescales require simpler aerosol schemes than are used in GLOMAP.

Noun used with modifier

  • coronation: There they attended a two-day celebration of the coronation centennial.

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