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

A vigil in her memory will also be held at Derry's Guildhall on Friday evening.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

The bookshelves with their neatly ordered manuscripts slumbered in the shadows, while overhead pale moonlight wafted through the stained glass windows, lighting on the bronze statues of past Librarians standing vigil over the galleries.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee