How to Use inaugurate in a Sentence

inaugurate

verb
  • They inaugurated the new headquarters with a brief ceremony.
  • And this inaugurated one of the great runs in tennis, if not in all of sports.
    — Jon Wertheim and Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • Putin will surely be inaugurated for a fifth term in the spring.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The center is planned to be inaugurated next month.
    — ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Eleven makers' products have been chosen to inaugurate the new space.
    — Courant Community, 26 June 2018
  • When will it be inaugurated and what happens to the Skybar?
    — Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This inaugurates a five-year deal to broadcast the long-running awards show on CBS.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Only a few kilometers away, a new mega port — a joint project with China — has just been inaugurated.
    — Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The rockers will follow in the footsteps of U2, who inaugurated the space just weeks ago.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Just one question on Vladimir Putin and how quiet he's been, hasn't said or done much since he was inaugurated for the fourth time.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • Newsom was 51 when he was first inaugurated.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Kaepernick did not inaugurate his protest in hopes of helping elect more centrist Democrats, or any kind of Democrat.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • He was elected for a fourth term in 1944, but died only three months after he was inaugurated.
    — Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The same day that Rubio presented his idea book, he was inaugurated as speaker at the capitol.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The hall of fame was inaugurated in 1998 and now has 87 inductees.
    — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Cantrell will be inaugurated May 7, less than a month before the end of the legislative session.
    — Kevin Litten, NOLA.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Deleon was one of the people who inaugurated the Camino de San Francisco.
    — Max Darrow, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Trump has already attended twice while president, and was beamed in by video last year just days after being inaugurated for his second term.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it.
    — New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The zoo was inaugurated in 1875 on what was then a quiet patch on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
    — Luis Andres Henao, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
  • 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 Pat Nixon inaugurated the park as a cross-border meeting place in 1971, there was no fence.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 June 2019
  • In 2015, the complex was inaugurated with a Miquel Barceló show.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 May 2026
  • 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
  • Trump is the oldest person to be inaugurated as president of the United States.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Those moves suggest that legacy media is still finding its footing amid the era of streaming inaugurated by Netflix.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Murals and statues in his honor continue to be inaugurated.
    — Esteban Campanela, CNN Money, 25 Nov. 2025

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