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Vigil in sentence

24 examples of Vigil in a sentence

Every November 20, we have a global vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance.
I am here, exposed, so that one day there will never be a need for a November 20 vigil.
I went to a candlelight vigil where citizens gathered together to talk about the issue of sexual violence openly, and I recorded a lot of blogs in response to how worrying the situation was in India at that point.
And Nick, he needs to hold vigil for the relationship.
Her most important duty is keeping vigil over the flame of Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
And as they passed us by, they reached for us through the windows, as we stood vigil to let them know that they are not alone, and we are fighting for them.
Domestic workers came from all over Texas to be a part of the vigil.
If they continued their vigil, what might these hypothetical aliens witness in the next hundred years?
She held a vigil there, and she even rocked in distress over the body.
And then there was Luke, who washed the floor in a comatose young man's room twice because the man's father, who had been keeping a vigil for six months, didn't see Luke do it the first time, and his father was angry.
Her vigil somewhere I know continues.
They quickly get inspiration to travel from San Francisco to Seattle and attend the Cobain vigil.
The public reaction began with a demonstration in Seoul on May 2 in which hundreds of teenagers held a candlelight vigil.
In Pakistan, girls in the child-marriage-free zones set up by Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi will carry out a vigil for the Nigerian schoolgirls.
On the night of June 4, as has happened every year since 1990, more than 100,000 people will attend a candlelight vigil to mark the anniversary of the brutal suppression of the 1989 demonstrations in Beijing.
He asked me very graciously if I felt exhausted from our vigil the night before.
He had driven away his thoughts, he had resisted the vigil.
See the calmness of the night, the solitude of the spot, inviting us to break our slumbers by a vigil of some sort.
How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil?
Kate had seen one such vigil, and perhaps showed in her eyes the wonder that she could not repress, for the Queen Mother fawned on her timidly after the jewels had been put away, and begged her not to laugh.
It was a most melancholy vigil, and ended by each of us falling asleep in our chairs.
On the other hand, if I should find the hut and its tenant should not be within it I must remain there, however long the vigil, until he returned.
"Something more potent than that," answered the Jester; "for when would repentance or prayer make Gurth do a courtesy, or fasting or vigil persuade him to lend you a mule?--I trow you might as well have told his favourite black boar of thy vigils and penance, and wouldst have gotten as civil an answer."
"I know no such thing," answered the Friar; "and defy thee for a meddling coxcomb!""Nay, but," said the Knight, who seemed to take a pleasure in provoking his quondam host, "hast thou forgotten how, that for my sake (for I say nothing of the temptation of the flagon and the pasty) thou didst break thy vow of fast and vigil?""Truly, friend," said the Friar, clenching his huge fist, "I will bestow a buffet on thee."