Sentence examples for desperate vigil from inspiring English sources

For several hours, as rumours about the number and location of attackers swept through Munich, and officers went slowly from store to store, there was a desperate vigil for loved ones trapped inside.

As Julian fends off the endeavours of his mother and his former girlfriend, the indomitable Katie, to draw him from his despair, he revisits in memory the events that have led him here: Mira's sudden illness; the sleepless nights spent in desperate vigil by her hospital bed; the operations; the terrible aftermath.

Only now, those Iraqis said, after desperate, unrewarded vigils at the prisons in Baghdad and elsewhere that emptied out on Sunday, had the families accepted that their hopes were gone.

Fans are holding a vigil in the desperate fight to save a 125-year-old club (www.argylefanstrust.com).

Relatives who had maintained a vigil at the mine in the desperate hope their loved ones were still alive emerged from the meeting crying, with some shouting at police and reporters.

She was keeping vigil.

A vigil for Paris.

Desperate times, desperate measures.

They organized the vigil.

Remember, the vigil — abstinence.

Easter Vigil itself.