How to Use inaugurate in a Sentence

inaugurate

verb
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  • They inaugurated the new headquarters with a brief ceremony.
  • Open for only a few weeks, Alaa could not have picked a worse time to inaugurate a bar.
    — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 3 Feb. 2021
  • To inaugurate his first drive as a starter, Jackson handed the ball off.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Putin will surely be inaugurated for a fifth term in the spring.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
  • This inaugurates a five-year deal to broadcast the long-running awards show on CBS.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The rockers will follow in the footsteps of U2, who inaugurated the space just weeks ago.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • On the 9th, the first of three spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet and inaugurate a new era of Martian exploration.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Burke said as the company inaugurated its 16th factory in France at a site near the city of Angers.
    — Robert Williams, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Standing at the entryway of the building, the master of macabre rock pulled out a switchblade and sliced a strip of black tape to inaugurate the new attraction.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Much of the work is being done in Ahmedabad, where Trump will inaugurate the world's largest cricket stadium.
    — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 20 Feb. 2020
  • The success of the memorial and its rapid embrace by the public helped inaugurate decades of new memorial building on or near the Mall.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In his first at-bat with a chance to inaugurate MLB’s 50-50 club, Ohtani clobbered a history-making two-run blast.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • When President Biden was inaugurated in 2021, oil prices were on the rise.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Short will be inaugurated May 13, when he will be given the key to Funner and announce his upcoming plans for the city.
    — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
  • When Trump was inaugurated, Drudge proclaimed it as nothing less than the restoration of the nation.
    — Paul Farhi, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020
  • The Jupiter is said to have been the first locomotive to pass over these connecting rails which linked the East and West to inaugurate a great step in transportation which was to unite the nation.
    — Wayne Whittaker, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2021
  • British colonists arrived on Roatán in 1638, inaugurating a two-hundred-year battle with the Spaniards.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Lai will succeed Tsai Ing-wen when he is inaugurated in May.
    — Didi Tang, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Not only that, he was inaugurated in the Hebrew year 5777.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Part of the problem is that almost no one made good political art the year Trump was inaugurated.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Klinghoffer had planned to inaugurate his stint with Pearl Jam by opening its 2020 tour with a Pluralone set each night and then joining the band to help flesh out the new songs from Gigaton.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The steak fry, one of the last statewide events, inaugurates a new phase of the race, attracting less politically active Iowans in addition to the die-hards.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That moment inaugurated the racist slavery that set the course of the black experience in this country.
    — Max Cohen, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
  • In 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his first term and Sony was still selling floppy disks.
    — Bailey Pennick, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
  • And in 2011, Rio’s gondola, also called a cable car, was inaugurated in the favela.
    — Wired, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Anderson will be the first chef to inaugurate Gather55 and will be a liaison between other chefs and Hands on Hartford.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Tesla expects to inaugurate production at a new plant in Austin, Texas, soon.
    — William Boston, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In the 2000s the era of Network Man is inaugurated, led by tech firms seeking to overthrow the old order with platforms that have millions of connected users.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2019
  • In 1904: New York City inaugurated its innovative new rapid transit system: the subway.
    — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The vintage train retraces its famed route inaugurated more than a century ago by Orient Express creator Georges Nagelmackers.
    — Eleanor Hardy, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2024

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