In a sentence
Six example sentences with commence, each labelled with its topic.
Surgeons will not commence until the count of instruments matches the list twice and the imaging is back on screen.
Medicine
Planting will commence the week after the last frost, and the volunteers have already staked out four hundred saplings.
Environment
The conductor waits for total silence in the hall before letting the strings commence the quiet opening of the symphony.
Music
The trial will commence on Monday morning, and the clerk has already summoned sixty potential jurors for selection.
Law
The referee would not let the game commence until both benches had cleared the towels off the baseline.
Basketball
Hiring will commence the week the seed round closes, and the founders have already drafted three job posts.
Startups
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Found in these word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains commence. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.