Get to know Vigil better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like watch or wakefulness.
Vigil in a sentence
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Vigil meaning
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
Synonyms of Vigil
Using Vigil
- The main meaning on this page is: An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray. | A period of observation or surveillance at any hour. | The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
- Useful related words include: watch, wakefulness, rite, religious rite.
- In the example corpus, vigil often appears in combinations such as: the vigil, vigil for, candlelight vigil.
Context around Vigil
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vigil
- In this selection, "vigil" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, candlelight, violencea, own, friday, organized and honoring stand out and add context to how "vigil" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a candlelight vigil for the and a candlelight vigil honoring phil. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vigil" sits close to words such as advertised, akin and beers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vigil
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A candlelight prayer vigil is to be held this evening (Monday) at Gortacladdy at 7pm. (15 words)
A candlelight vigil for the family will take place at Hazlet Town Hall on Tuesday evening. (16 words)
About 200 people were at vigil Friday night in the St. John's community of Shea Heights. (17 words)
Pedestrian Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver At Vigil For CyclistPolice are looking for a driver who struck a pedestrian near a South Los Angeles vigil being held for a cyclist who was killed in an earlier hit-and-run crash. (41 words)
A night-time vigil is being planned to remember those killed in a car crash that left two others seriously injured as questions continue to be asked about why it took the police so long to find them. (38 words)
Vigil For Slain Star Student James Garrett, An Innocent Victim Of Gun ViolenceA vigil was held Monday for a top student who was fatally shot over the weekend while he attended another vigil. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Vigil For Slain Star Student James Garrett, An Innocent Victim Of Gun ViolenceA vigil was held Monday for a top student who was fatally shot over the weekend while he attended another vigil.
A week after the vigil organized by OSU Hillel and JewishColumbus, Ohio State’s Students for Justice in Palestine, also known as SJP, held its own vigil on the Oval Wednesday.
Pedestrian Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver At Vigil For CyclistPolice are looking for a driver who struck a pedestrian near a South Los Angeles vigil being held for a cyclist who was killed in an earlier hit-and-run crash.
A 31-year-old father of two from Bloomfield was remembered at a vigil on Thursday night, 10 days after he was fatally shot.
About 200 people were at vigil Friday night in the St. John's community of Shea Heights.
A candlelight prayer vigil is to be held this evening (Monday) at Gortacladdy at 7pm.
A candlelight vigil for the family will take place at Hazlet Town Hall on Tuesday evening.
A candlelight vigil honoring Phil is scheduled for 6 p.m. CT Thursday at the Mt. Lovely Baptist Church in Camp Hill, Alabama.
A candlelit vigil will be held for the boys in Shropshire this evening, with churches in Shrewsbury opening their doors today to console the shocked community.
Activists at Dartmouth College are among those groups, organizing a sustained vigil outside Dartmouth’s administration building, Parkhurst Hall.
Among the hundreds of grieving people at the vigil were members of the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville.
Among those offering messages of hope and perseverance at the Kahului vigil was Pastor John Crewe of Lahaina United Methodist Church on Front Street, whose 100-year-old sanctuary is now in ruins.
An alliance of Hong Kong activists that used to organise the annual Tiananmen vigil was disbanded after the arrest of several of its leaders in 2021.
And cops have called on the vigil attendees to "honour his memory respectfully", with a large number of people are expected to turn up to the event.
A night-time vigil is being planned to remember those killed in a car crash that left two others seriously injured as questions continue to be asked about why it took the police so long to find them.
A participant of a vigil for Israel at Colorado State University stands in the Lory Student Center Oct. 12. Several Jewish community members spoke to the gathering regarding the conflict in Israel.
A service to promote it is being held on December 4 in St Ann’s Church, Dublin at 6.30pm, followed by "a vigil for peace".
At a vigil the day after the shootings, DeSantis was booed by the crowd during his speech.
A tight vigil was maintained and a mobile command control centre with advanced surveillance features was deployed during the rally to ward off trouble.
A Ukrainian flag flies above a few dozen people gathered for a vigil Friday held in support for Ukraine on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country at the Pioneers Museum.
Common combinations with vigil
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the vigil 34×
- vigil for 30×
- candlelight vigil 20×
- vigil on 16×
- vigil in 14×
- vigil at 12×
- during vigil 12×
- vigil was 11×
- at vigil 10×
- of vigil 9×