How to Use commence in a Sentence

commence

verb
Definition of commencenext
Synonyms for commencenext
  • The country has commenced preparations for war.
  • The festivities will commence with a parade.
  • The court commenced criminal proceedings.
  • Their contract commences in January.
  • HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales and will commence sales at Cannes.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2022
  • The season’s home stretch commences the following week when the Vikings play at Chicago.
    — Steve Silverman, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • But in the interests of the team, the complete overcoming and healing should commence straightaway … like, right now.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2022
  • Tree planting will commence again in October 2022 until the end of the Jubilee year.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas said the service department has bought a striping machine, at $3,000, so that the work can commence in about a week, when the machine arrives.
    — cleveland, 4 May 2022
  • As a matter of fact, yes, as the final scene revealed McGee and his trusty keyboard have commenced a deep dive into LaRoche’s files….
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Nuzzi’s relationship with RFK Jr. allegedly had not commenced prior to that point.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Production commenced in Los Angeles earlier this month.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The first phase will commence this summer, when the company breaks ground on 7 new housing units adjacent to Homewood’s north base area on Highway 89.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The repaving and remake of the street was to commence in 2016.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • All of the new growth will commence at the top of each cane.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The work is part of a three-year study commenced in 2018.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 June 2019
  • Only then do the two shake hands, and the match may commence.
    — Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2017
  • At the end of the year, once the layoffs had commenced, upwards of 3,300 staffers a month were on such a plan.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Tickets for the streams, which commence each night at 7 p.m.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The breakup is expected to commence in 18 to 24 months.
    — Kevin Dowd, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The second phase is expected to commence at the end of May.
    — Byrebecca Gelpi, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Britain commenced a long process of widening the franchise in 1832.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 June 2017
  • But when there’s grilling to be done, a battle still commences.
    — J. J. Goode, New York Times, 13 June 2023
  • But when the match commenced, Jabeur injured her right foot.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • An avalanche of retweets, reshares, and page views soon commenced.
    — Andy Boyle, Esquire, 10 Mar. 2016
  • And what happened here gives you an idea of what will commence once that gets put in play.
    — WSJ, 21 Feb. 2017
  • As the game commences, each player draws and discards a tile, with the aim of getting four sets and a pair.
    — Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Cates explained the rules a second time, and after a few false starts, the game commenced.
    — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2020
  • The voting could have commenced at any moment but of course did not.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The dogs, pets of lodge staff and guests, stuck close to their humans until the dancing commenced.
    — Dina Mishev, Dallas News, 8 July 2019

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