Sentence examples for attending a wake from inspiring English sources

It's like attending a wake for someone who died 30 years ago, then being served Champagne that's been sitting open during the interim.

On a recent afternoon, however, Mrs. Marcos had to tend to the darker side of Philippine politics by attending a wake for the campaign organizer gunned down the previous day under mysterious circumstances.

News reports said that many residents of the neighborhood were attending a wake for a local 20-year-old who died Thursday in a motorbike accident when the police arrested a man for dangerous driving.

As the severe weather moved to the northeast on Wednesday, a thunderstorm in West Virginia caused a gymnasium to collapse at the Twin Branch Christian Academy, in Davy, killing a woman on attending a wake there, The A.P. reported.

"It was a disappointing quarter, leading some we spoke with to say the conference call 'was like attending a wake,' " George Sutton, a Dain Rauscher Wessels analyst, wrote in a note to clients in reference to a post-earnings conference call by the company's management.

As we moved slowly around the perimeter of the room, we felt more like we were attending a wake than strolling through a national monument.

Shortly after the first film opens, the main character attends a wake.

The Burns family and many friends had attended a wake in a downtown bar Monday night after the funeral.

They were planning to attend a wake for a friend who had been murdered in what the police believed was a gang-related crime.

Apparently, 75% of folk have celebrated a friend's birthday in the pub; 48% have attended a wake; and 20% of people met their partner in a boozer.

Hundreds of mourners attended a wake at Cobble Hill Chapels on Tuesday, where Sharif lay in an open coffin, bruises visible under and above his right eye.