How to Use Inauguration Day in a Sentence

Inauguration Day

noun
  • At one point, staffers work with the two of them to plan out their movements on Inauguration Day.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The last two months were very strong, but that may change with the flood of changes announced since Inauguration Day.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Paul has vowed to move quickly to confirm her in time for Inauguration Day.
    — Stef W. Kight, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
  • And so, on that historic Inauguration Day, the first lady wore blue.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Trump on the other hand would likely be happy to reach Inauguration Day with one less crisis on his plate.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
  • And then there's Inauguration Day, but that's beyond this story's scope.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The vice president would step in and be sworn in as president on Inauguration Day.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • But isn’t 14 days before Inauguration Day a little late for that, folks?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
  • But six months after Inauguration Day, those sentiments are much more mixed, with good reason.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2025
  • Below, see her images from Inauguration Day in New York.
    — Poupay Jutharat, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
  • That’s because most of these markets will remain open for bets for weeks and months after the election, in some cases as late as Inauguration Day.
    — Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Inching closer to Inauguration Day, spectators can expect to see more of him as children of president's-to-be play a role in the pageantry.
    — Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Before the pause was announced after trade talks in Geneva, the Dow was still down 6% from Inauguration Day levels.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 12 May 2025
  • The market starts to price in the new administration as of Election Day, not Inauguration Day.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Prior to Inauguration Day, the two women had only ever interacted briefly at state funerals.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 5 June 2026
  • On Inauguration Day, Webster was anxious.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Trump formally announced Isaacman's nomination on Inauguration Day, weeks after naming him as his choice to head the space agency.
    — PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But on Inauguration Day, a White House report listing interim heads of agencies referred to Driscoll as the acting director.
    — Carrie Johnson, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The temperature on Inauguration Day at noon — when the president-elect swears in — is expected to be in the low-20s, which is around 20 degrees below normal.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The hostages were released on the afternoon of Inauguration Day, January 20, 1981.
    — Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Andrew Jackson threw open the White House for an 1829 Inauguration Day bash so unruly that staff eventually dispersed the crowd by moving tubs of whiskey and ice cream to the lawn.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • But on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1993, there was another surprise.
    — Mort Gerberg, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
  • The then-president-elect wondered aloud why the College Football Playoff National Championship game was broadcast on Inauguration Day.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, at one point, Ratner juxtaposes footage of workers removing the Biden family's personal effects from the White House on Inauguration Day with Melania putting her hat on.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The first lady started her first day of official engagement in a dark gray Christian Dior haute couture suit with matching pumps and a violet wool hat with a broad brim that was reminiscent of her Inauguration Day hat from Eric Javits.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The National Weather Service has taken steps to begin filling some of the more than 550 positions left vacant by federal cutbacks and early retirements since Inauguration Day.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Meeting in trailer held at Mar-a-Lago One of the most in-depth interactions the president had in the movie happened at Mar-a-Lago, as the couple met about security and logistics of Inauguration Day.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Trump’s memorandum was consistent with one of his Inauguration Day executive orders, which prohibited DEI activities by all government agencies, grantees and contractors.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If Homelander's takeover of the United States government and rounding up of his chief dissenters took place around Inauguration Day in January, Godolkin University's fall semester kicks off around the end of August.
    — EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • An Inauguration Day executive order targeting DEI withdrew federal support through the DOE for learning loss caused by the pandemic, including from long Covid.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025

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