How to Use inaugurate in a Sentence

inaugurate

verb
Definition of inauguratenext
Synonyms for inauguratenext
  • They inaugurated the new headquarters with a brief ceremony.
  • 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
  • Its face was fantastically flat: an easy exterior on which to inaugurate the drill.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Sheinbaum is set to be inaugurated Oct. 1 as the first woman president of Mexico.
    — Russell Contreras, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Original Sin leaned into the slasher aspects of the PLL-verse, so this announcement is a cute way to inaugurate spooky season.
    — Vulture, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Barack Obama had pledged to shut down the prison as president, and two days after being inaugurated signed an executive order to close it by the end of the year.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 28 June 2023
  • The vote is not binding but represents the strongest criticism yet of Shafik, who was inaugurated last fall.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
  • Host nation Qatar will take on Ecuador on Nov. 20 to inaugurate the 4-week competition.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • The technology has been around since the 1960s, when Japan inaugurated its Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka.
    — Mike Gagliardi, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The weekend before the anniversary, Erdogan made a trip to the area, inaugurating two new hospitals in Hatay.
    — Scott McLean, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • On Tuesday, he is scheduled to be inaugurated to his fifth term as president.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • 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.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • When the structure was inaugurated five years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin drove across it in an orange truck and extolled the feat of its construction.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Modi had been set to inaugurate a new high-speed train, the Vande Bharat Express, on Saturday before the accident happened.
    — Kunal Sehgal, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • In the fall of 1948, while Israel was still fighting Arab armies in its war of independence, the first wing of the museum’s permanent building was inaugurated.
    — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • He was inaugurated as the nation’s first president two years later in 1789.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • On September 30th, the MAD museum will inaugurate an exhibition featuring looks by each of the 35 grand prize winners to date.
    — Tina Isaac-Goizé, Vogue, 27 June 2024

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