Sentence examples for a poignant day from inspiring English sources
It was, presumably, a poignant day for Mrs. Clinton, who found herself back on Air Force One for the first time since leaving the White House.
But for those five family members -- and for two firefighters who ran into their blazing apartment, crawled down a smoke-filled hallway and shared their air packs with the trapped woman, her brother and her three children until help arrived -- it was a day of survival and heroism, a poignant day to remember.
To see the effort and the enjoyment in a local event held among the graves of 266 British servicemen who served in the First World War made for a poignant day.
Republic of Ireland striker John Aldridge - whose penalty miss had cost Liverpool in their defeat by Wimbledon in the previous year's final - opened the scoring on a poignant day for the city.
For some, it was a chance to see McCain on a particularly poignant day, coming to Zanesville 41 years to the day when he was shot down during a bombing raid on Hanoi, South Vietnam in 1967.
"Today is a particularly poignant day because Charles was due to be joining me at a farewell party for my brother Donald, who is retiring from his role as official piper at Glasgow University where Charles was once rector.
Last Sunday was a poignant date on the 2013 calendar at Hannah England's new Oxford home.
And then, two days after her mother died, Rochette skated a poignant Olympic performance Tuesday night that was summoned from heartbreaking grief and extraordinary composure.
In a poignant coincidence, on Monday night, Mr. Davis, 84 and a little frail, a supreme Berlioz interpreter, conducted the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Berlioz's Requiem at St. Paul's Cathedral, not far from Covent Garden.
The movie of boxer Quanitta Underwood's life — and there are documentary filmmakers following her around to capture every detail — gained a poignant moment on Monday after Underwood found out she had been granted an Olympic berth.
