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    Use "vigil" in a sentence

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    vigil


    1. 00, vigil from 7


    2. the coldest night of the year for his vigil, when there was a


    3. She’d never said what had set her running from her vigil at the cottage


    4. Only the shattered Elif, the unconscious soldier and the sticky drip of blood kept his vigil with despair


    5. Through the window of the house, I could see at least two freaks keeping a stoic vigil in what looked to be the living room


    6. I had a cup of water closed my pack pulled my rifle into my shoulder and took up my vigil once more


    7. And yet, it had been Josh who had stood vigil beside her sick bed, not Alex


    8. Bitsy showed up a bit later, and we all started our vigil


    9. Brock waited a further moon before suggesting that they resume their journey, not because the delay might help them to discover what had happened to Darkburst– that hope had quickly disappeared– but because he couldn't bring himself to ask Soffen to leave her lonely vigil


    10. Already she’d talked about taking up a vigil by the Natural Bridge in the hope of precipitating Daniel-William’s return

    11. My vigil was rewarded by the sight of three planes, one after the other; casting their shadows on the hillside and tents


    12. It had been a lonely vigil, but thankfully uneventful


    13. That time so long ago, she mused, the old thought, still clear after so many years, when the heavens were my only source of inspiration that offered a distraction from my lonely vigil


    14. “Please, give your servant some sign that you have at least heard him!” he bellowed to the seemingly empty countryside in the distress of his lonely vigil


    15. I maintained my vigil, sending my spirit out to the departing one who might need a steady hand at the crossing-over place


    16. That vigil had taken girlhood from her eyes, yet she kept her youth to a marvellous degree


    17. That night they all went to bed at nine, except Carl, who was already keeping vigil on the tombstone


    18. I helped dress their wounds, then returned to the vigil with Ah Tutal


    19. The long and unbroken peace lulled the wizards into a false sense of safety, and they became lax in their vigil


    20. They set up a vigil just outside the house

    21. In the cavern in Kellaran’s most distant moon, two female Senior Draconian Healers sat vigil with the Eldest, feeding his Levitated body a slow trickle of power to ensure it’s continued gradual recovery and monitoring it closely


    22. Moshe had insisted that he be the last to exit the encampment and rode his lonely vigil somewhat behind Yigal’s men


    23. Therefore I say to you if the owner of a house knows that the thief is coming he will begin his vigil before he comes and will not let him into his house of his domain to carry away his goods


    24. Searchers would have come across it but thankfully he had been wearing gloves at all times during his vigil, therefore no fingerprints which could point to him would have been found on the rifle, or on anything else that might have been left behind


    25. the peoples of the world stayed close to their radios and TV sets as they kept vigil and


    26. Both Ogilhinn and I had prayed and stood vigil while Gavina, Beathan’s wife, was ill


    27. They keep you safe while your rest, you keep vigil when they need


    28. The Dangler’s mad vigil seemed to last all night, but finally he dropped into the bottom of the boat and said, “I only missed one


    29. John would have gone with him, but Jesus insisted that he stay through the festivities, saying: "It is not required of you to bear the burden of the Son of Man; only the watchman must keep vigil while the city sleeps in peace


    30. Professors, Norm and Boran, along with several other scientists’ remained to keep vigil and chatted about the miracle they were creating

    31. When his sons managed to crawl to college, he doubled his vigil over their activities


    32. He got back in the Porsche and drove back to Cabo Branco to continue his vigil


    33. 12 When David had gone up Olivet, John Mark took up his vigil near the road which ran by the brook down to Jerusalem


    34. None of these watchers suspected that the object of their vigil had risen to a new and higher form of existence, and that the body which they were guarding was now a discarded outer covering which had no further connection with the delivered and resurrected morontia personality of Jesus


    35. � answers Eric from his vigil at the window


    36. She kept vigil over everyone, but not as before—not as a spy


    37. At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he ap-peared in the cell an hour before the execution


    38. But what other use for that eye now, other than to receive this image? Death was near for the fishless crew, so why not burn this image onto the back of Fishmael's retina for the rest of his short life? So the lithographic vigil continued


    39. Nancy and the others spent the next two hours in a sad vigil, oblivious of the hot sun


    40. � The soldier standing vigil besides him looked with discouragement at Eggers

    41. The constant vigil was boring, nothing was happening on the Ocean Raider, his cramped cabin was sweltering even with the windows and hatches open


    42. A vigil was in progress, one of many around the country, while a Constitutional Convention met to draft a major revision


    43. They were greeted there by Teresa James, Gertrude Meserve and Lieutenant Colonel Tucker, who were mounting an anxious vigil in the pre-operating room


    44. They reported that several thousand people were gathering outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock, in an around-the-clock vigil, in support of my friends


    45. What attracted Mazarin’s attention was the size of the woman, who was now discussing with one of the guards standing vigil along the road from Nantes: Compared to her, the guard seemed diminutive


    46. Her vigil had lasted for millennia, but it was finally at an end


    47. The Director went back to his office as the mystery team lowered the lights near the bed of the patient and kept quite vigil


    48. Theresa and her cousin Mei Li rotated shifts night and day for several days, keeping vigil over the monk who hovered somewhere between life and death


    49. My vigil is held in complete silence


    50. I understand that you truly respect us womenfolk and that you have done well in cleaning up your act on that score, but you need to continue keeping vigil over your attitude and language









































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    Synonyms for "vigil"

    vigil watch alertness signal alert alarm wariness warning siren

    "vigil" definitions

    a period of sleeplessness


    the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)


    a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe