inaugurate

Example Sentences

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It is a pointed reference, as Douglass gave the speech to inaugurate Ball’s statue in Washington in 1876.

From New York Times

He moved to Woodstock in 1972 and inaugurated the Creative Music Studio, which settled into a nearby mountain lodge with residences and performance spaces.

From New York Times

More than a century after Paris inaugurated its first Metro line — for the 1900 Olympics and World’s Fair — most of the capital’s historic subway system is still inaccessible to people who use wheelchairs.

From Seattle Times

"They will be built by military engineers and will be inaugurated before my term ends," he added.

From Reuters

No place has had more experience with the promise and the peril of the technology than Mexico, the country that inaugurated its spread around the globe.

From New York Times