vigil

Example Sentences

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Dutifully but vacantly, he keeps an all-night vigil by her coffin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Hundreds of people have attended a vigil in Londonderry city centre in memory of Amy Doherty who was killed in the city last weekend.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The New York Times’ Adam Liptak described her role this way in 2019: “Justice Sonia Sotomayor … maintains a sort of vigil in the capital cases other justices treat as routine.”

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2026

Consuegra was among a group of supporters who held a vigil in Little Havana in Miami on Thursday for the men who were killed and injured.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

He’s pushing in our door and singing, And if when all a vigil keep, The West’s asleep, the West’s asleep!

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt