How to Use inaugurate in a Sentence

inaugurate

verb

• They inaugurated the new headquarters with a brief ceremony.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Ansa said news of Loren’s hospitalisation was announced by a restaurant bearing her name that she was set to inaugurate on Tuesday in the Italian port city of Bari.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• To inaugurate the hall, officials are using a new playbook.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2022
• That’s especially true this year, as the festivities helped inaugurate a new building in the heart of downtown, the Sealaska Heritage Arts Campus.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• The last coup attempt against Bazoum was in 2021, two days before he was slated to be inaugurated, though that uprising was unsuccessful.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 29 July 2023
• For the first time in sixteen years Damascus has inaugurated a new five-star luxury hotel.
  — Charles Glass, The New York Review of Books, 28 Feb. 2023
• The train runs on 100% renewable energy, and SJ will inaugurate an extended service to Berlin this summer.
  — Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The country also plans to inaugurate a state-of-the-art museum near the Giza Pyramids, which Egypt says will be the biggest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization.
  — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024