vigil

Example Sentences

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"This vigil of care is the work of remaining - of staying present in the quiet and the dark."

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 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

Hundreds of people showed up for a midweek vigil at St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, where some of the family worships, a few days after Guthrie disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

There he is, on the TV, standing right down the block on Peach Street, in the middle of this vigil.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon