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Sentence Examples A few Sundays ago a large white van from Tennessee with a flag and peace sign painted on it circled the vigil and then parked. The body is left in the church overnight and the traditional wake held after the vigil in the church hall or an adjoining room. Students and community members packed the Great Hall for a touching vigil for the victims of the recent tsunami disaster in southeast Asia. So prepare for an all-night vigil as there will also be a post-Palace party down at the Warehouse that will run you until dawn. On All Souls' Day, people gather at the graves of family members for a twenty-four-hour vigil. The islanders then held an all-night vigil on the island as they feared that the fire might rekindle. Two military knights, in uniforms of scarlet swallowtail coats with black arm bands, stood in solemn vigil, guarding the Princess's coffin. A candlelit vigil took place in Huyton last night, one week after the alleged assault, to honour the dead teenager's memory. Three protesters fasted for three days and held a vigil outside the embassy. I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame. The Montagnais man awaits the slight change in the weather that signals the coming of winter in a night-long vigil. The relatives and close friends sit in the same room as the deceased and maintain a silent prayer vigil throughout the night until morning. Whenever possible, we go back to relieve his wife and my mother-in-law Judith of her bedside vigil. On the last night of their vigil, the three huddled together in sleeping bags as blustery weather whipped around them. The burning issue now is for all of us to keep vigil and stop the contractors from bringing down the tree at night. At the end of every vigil we make a circle and share news and announce other events and concerns. I am sure this country, where she was born and grew up to serve well, will keep a prayerful vigil for her speedy recovery. Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept vigil in a nearby church. Abandoned by their father, forsaken by neighbors, Bolas and the children kept vigil over their mother. We kept vigil by his bedside for hours until for me three in the morning and for my mother four in the morning. Show More Sentences The press was informed and, as older people will remember, it seemed that the whole world gathered in a vigil around his deathbed. A loyal dog kept vigil for more than a week beside a woman who died in her Bolton home. For two weeks, various members of the family kept vigil by his bedside in intensive care. They have welcomed the family into the church where parishioners and the vicar are keeping a round-the-clock vigil over them. She was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where her parents were this morning keeping a bedside vigil. On March 27, about 200 teachers and students from the Wellington and Hutt Valley regions staged a protest vigil outside parliament. Over 300 people attended the vigil in support of the family, with about 150 joining a subsequent march on New Scotland Yard. After the lecture he left central hall passing some protestors holding a silent vigil about Zimbabwe. Please bring everyone you know to the vigil this Monday evening at Aotea Square at 6pm. It is at pains to point out that much of the ceremony took place during the Christmas vigil and on the feast of the Nativity. His travels were circular, he and his companions returning each year to celebrate the Easter vigil on the back of an enormous fish, Jasconius. Neither the Christmas vigil nor the Christmas day service provoked any great amount of tension in either party. The time for the vigil mass in Kilglass Church on Saturday evenings has now been changed from 9pm to 7pm for the winter months. The vigil Mass in Kilglass Church on next Saturday evening at 9 p.m. will be a special Mass for those who are doing exams. The Senior Traditional Group will perform at the vigil Mass on the third Saturday of every month. The Easter Offering for the support of the priests of the parish will be taken up at the Easter vigil and Easter Sunday morning. The vigil Mass for Christmas will take place in Rathdowney Church on Christmas Eve at 9pm. On Holy Saturday they visit Jasconius the whale to keep the Easter vigil, and sing the first mass of Easter on his back. Holy Saturday saw a packed Church for the Easter vigil and the first Mass of Easter was celebrated at 9pm. As thousands of people stood vigil in St. Peter's square all day today, millions more stayed glued to their televisions. Show More Sentences Before it, a desk with stacks of waiting paperwork held vigil, its dark wood surface holding old ink stains. I thank God that I heeded my wife's call to attend our church's vigil in Ebute Meta. The group will be staging a symbolic candlelit vigil in support of all victims of human rights abuse worldwide. I lowered my assault rifle's polymer stock from my shoulder and continued my vigil. His dying trek home leads to a last few weeks of hermitic vigil, representing his political impotence as a lone poet with writers' block. A total of 10 counters functioned to issue tickets and a strict vigil was maintained to stop the visitors from carrying polythene bags. As we neared that last portage, from Quetico Lake back into Beaverhouse, two eagles stood silent vigil in a dead tree along our way. He is keeping a bedside vigil with his partner who is said to be out of danger but very uncomfortable. During the vigil a representative of the Beth Din invited participants inside to meet the dayanim. After the vigil Mass on Saturday evening, the Blessed Sacrament will be carried in procession through Sheridan Park, not through Bohola village. Surveillance is, plenty simply, the reaction of vigil people, objects or processes for duteousness to exact expected norms. You are cordially invited to a reception and vigil with plenty of tea, sympathy and more than a drop of the hard stuff. Now Lauren, from Worsley, and her partner, Ashley Easdale, are keeping a bedside vigil to watch his progress. Now parents will be able to take a break from their bedside vigil happy they can watch their child's every movement on a TV screen in a private room downstairs. After the accident, the family set up a vigil in the intensive care unit. Finally, there was a vigil of about ten people standing hand in hand across the street form the clinic praying quietly. Instead, they had stood in the back and bore witness, not even seeking shade until the end of the vigil. Two church members stood outside the Church, embracing each mourner as they walked to the vigil. He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep. Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil. Show More Sentences Some of the more dedicated activists are going to march over to the Guy street police station this afternoon to hold a vigil and voice their displeasure with the Man. Since the executions were held very early in the mornings, we found that prisoners kept vigil through the night, staying awake with the woman who was to be executed. He kept a vigil outside the theatre while the surgeons operated. The male blackbird resumed his perch, his inky feathers drying in the bright sun as he continued his vigil. A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night vigil, awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well. Two nights before she died, there was an all-night vigil at her bedside. The pub offers an all-night cellar vigil including the use of infra-red cameras, dousing rods, and a meter for measuring electro-magnetic fields for serious enthusiasts. Across town the 74 year old archbishop had organised a vigil in support of those arrested, which saw loads of young and old people pack into the cathedral. If there are no angels in the sky announcing the birth of a saviour, that cave still betokens a Christmas and there's a search and rescue party keeping vigil near the child. Several shoppers and passers-by paused to observe the vigil. While she spent her evenings preparing, he maintained an intermittent vigil at the bedroom window, offering some grudging help between observing sessions. Parents kept vigil, wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry. Burnley groundstaff have worked like Trojans ever since, even launching a 24-hour pitch side vigil in the build-up to Liverpool's visit to ensure the surface was playable. Still, the Italian fashion world is holding vigil, awaiting word on the fate of Vittorio Missoni. The vigil Mass on Christmas was 9 pm and a large congregation was present. This new fangled electricity lights them all wirelessly, turning the ball into a haunting, glowing vigil. Anger mounted throughout the next day, as residents, family friends and young people placed wreaths and cards on the tree and conducted a midday wake and vigil at the site. He can't hold a bedside vigil until the boy either wakes up of snuffs it! Walker says the police barreled toward the vigil too fast for safety. For the next three days we kept vigil at his bed in the private clinic. Show More Sentences If we could take a look now at those live pictures of St. Peter's Square, to an estimated 70,000 people have gathered to maintain a vigil and to pray for the pope. The Christmas pageant involving the children from Culleens and Kilglass N.S. will take place during the Gospel at the Christmas night vigil Mass in Kilglass Church. Peninsula cosponsored a rally and vigil calling for peace, not weapons in space. Crews from Grangetown mounted a day-long vigil around Eston Hills to snuff out small pockets of fire. Anti-war campaigners are protesting against the presence of British troops in Iraq with a silent vigil. It is marked by offerings of cold water bael leaves to Lord Shiva, all day fasting and a night long vigil. Peaceniks from the Hind-Pak Dosti Manch held a candlelight vigil at midnight on the Attari side of the border gates. There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night. His dog kept vigil outside the hospital for eight days while he was recovering from an accident. The protesters kept vigil outside the conference centre in which the party congress was being held. We want to put in place a water wing of the force to maintain a strict vigil on water bodies. As the minutes tick past and I continue my lonely vigil, I realise that I have wasted a whole day. Sister is a passionate advocate of nonviolence, peace and justice, and each month she conducts a prayer vigil for peace in the chapel of our Motherhouse. The miners' families kept vigil overnight, singing songs around a bonfire and doing early morning callisthenics to shake off anxiety and shivers in the bitter desert cold. In November 2015 a vigil against the terrorist attacks in Paris was held. After a brief discussion of Quartilla's Priapean vigil, the discussion turns to the Cena Trimalchionis, the most celebrated episode in Petrionius's narrative. She was a warm and devoted teacher who was loved by all,'' said Pam Pasquin, principal of Pinecrest School in Simi Valley, where the vigil was held for Snellings. Examples from Classical Literature I remember, one morning, stell and I came home in the dawn after an all-night vigil with a dying woman. In the meantime Tad Butler was keeping his lonely vigil on the fogbound plains many miles away. You shall keep vigil on the sands of the Gulf and on the banks of the Potomac. There, screened from the keen eyes of flighting wild-fowl, I began my vigil with all the hope that waits on inexperience. When we called in the dog she stepped to the portieres and commenced her vigil. Despite all the fatigue of that terrible night of vigil, he did not think of sleeping. A MOVING candlelit vigil was held in Newcastle for the victims of the Peshawar massacre in Pakistan. The service will be held on August 4 at Cardiff's Llandaff Cathedral and will take the form of a candlelit vigil. In Cardiff last night, as in over 40 countries across the world, a candlelit vigil was held in an act of solidarity with Syrians. A large lamp, placed on the writing-table, illumined this strange vigil. See them on the shoreline Silent watches of the deep Standing tall, unmoving As they their vigil keep. About noon he went to the police station to make inquiries, and then came back again for another anxious vigil. But of late, since the night of his vigil, all her sympathies towards him had been both softened and invigorated. He cleared the room, and took up his vigil outside the door. Four weeks, five weeks, six weeks the vigil in the cabane lasted. Historically, the Western church has observed this as a night of vigil, prayer and fasting before All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. My guardian angel is asleep At least he doth no vigil keep But far doth roam. But was Eleazar glad, I wonder, or sorry, that his long vigil was ended? Dan waked him at twelve for his vigil, and he in turn was wakened at two. Massive structures of dark stone are lit by four vigil lights that give off fewer lumens than an elderly glowworm with a busted rheostat. Show More Sentences Only the thought of Redfield and the chief nerved him for the long vigil. One evening, after a day of accustomed vigil at the angle of two roads leading to Marseilles from the Catalans, she returned to her home more depressed than ever. Pope Francis asked for a big turnout at a Vatican vigil on Saturday for peace in Syria and thanked the world's faithful and non-believers for their support. At the end of the first vigil, she noticed that the face had taken on a yellow tinge, the lips grew blue, the nose grew pinched, the eyes were sunken. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. Sobbing inconsolably, Polina Buckley, 24, paid her respects to Nick, 36, at a candlelit vigil in New York where she was visiting at the time of the attacks. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of vigil? Words that rhyme with vigil What is the plural of vigil? What is the adverb for vigil? What is the adjective for vigil? What is the noun for vigil? Translations for vigil Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words vigia vigesimal vigas vigabatrin viga Vig Vigil vigilance vigilance committee vigilant vigilante Vigilante 5-letter Words Starting With v vi vig vigi