Vigil

Definition

vigil /'vÇdʒÇl/ n (ေစာင့္ရန္၊ ေမွ်ာ္ရန္၊ ဆုေတာင္းပတၳနာ ပို႔သရန္ စသည္ျဖင့္) အိပ္စက္ျခင္းမျပဳဘဲေနျခင္း။ keep a hospital bedside vigil ❍ hold a candlelight vigil for peace.

Examples

1. ‘For the next three days we kept vigil at his bed in the private clinic.’
2. ‘Abandoned by their father
3. forsaken by neighbors
4. Bolas and the children kept vigil over their mother.’
5. ‘If we could take a look now at those live pictures of St. Peter's Square
6. to an estimated 70
7. 000 people have gathered to maintain a vigil and to pray for the pope.’
8. ‘For two weeks
9. various members of the family kept vigil by his bedside in intensive care.’
10. ‘Some fans were seen weeping and praying for his fast recovery while others kept vigil in a nearby church.’
11. ‘It might have been her outpouring of love and grief
12. it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals
13. the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain
14. or a combination of these.’
15. ‘While she spent her evenings preparing
16. he maintained an intermittent vigil at the bedroom window
17. offering some grudging help between observing sessions.’
18. ‘The press was informed and
19. as older people will remember
20. it seemed that the whole world gathered in a vigil around his deathbed.’
21. ‘A loyal dog kept vigil for more than a week beside a woman who died in her Bolton home.’
22. ‘Parents kept vigil
23. wrapped in blankets before fires at the site of the catastrophe amid the silence of those buried under the mountain of masonry.’
24. ‘Two nights before she died
25. there was an all-night vigil at her bedside.’
26. ‘In the old days families kept vigil and ate little ‘Soul’ cakes.’
27. ‘Now Lauren
28. from Worsley
29. and her partner
30. Ashley Easdale
31. are keeping a bedside vigil to watch his progress.’
32. ‘She was later transferred to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London where her parents were this morning keeping a bedside vigil.’
33. ‘A mourner
34. fallen asleep in a late-night vigil
35. awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing
36. but the corpse has been stolen as well.’
37. ‘They have welcomed the family into the church where parishioners and the vicar are keeping a round-the-clock vigil over them.’
38. ‘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.’
39. ‘Since the executions were held very early in the mornings
40. we found that prisoners kept vigil through the night
41. staying awake with the woman who was to be executed.’
42. ‘We kept vigil by his bedside for hours until for me three in the morning and for my mother four in the morning.’
43. ‘But when I came and kept vigil in his armchair while he lay on his left ribs
44. his back rolled around him like an exoskeleton
45. all night I stared at his books neat in their shelves.’