Sentence examples for poignant service from inspiring English sources

Ms Sturgeon, who also visited injured victims at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, said: "It was a very moving service, a very poignant service.

While staff in Afghanistan attend the ramp ceremony, the poignant service in which the soldiers pay their last respects, other colleagues prepare for their return at RAF Lyneham where Mr Albin Dyer sits with the families in the chapel, explaining funeral procedures.

Updated at 12.09pm BST 11.05am BST The Press Association has filed this report on the events of this morning: British veterans of the D-day landings honoured their fallen comrades during a poignant service of remembrance in Normandy attended by the Queen.

Each year there was also a poignant service on Armistice Sunday.

"This is a particularly poignant service today as we not only remember all past service personnel who gave up their lives in two world wars to defend our freedoms but also soldiers from Northern Ireland who were killed or injured in more recent conflicts," she said.

Several hundred colleagues, friends, families and Air France representatives gathered for a poignant church service, which ended with mourners laying white roses around a photograph on the altar.

Following the ceremony, Prime Minister Abbott wrote on Twitter:  "A sad, poignant, beautiful service to celebrate the life of Phillip Hughes today in Macksville," adding the hashtag 'RIP Phillip Hughes'.

There are scores of somber memorial events on Sunday commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks — poignant prayer services, candlelight vigils and, of course, the official commemoration at ground zero.

The death toll from the Friday disco bombing rose to 20 today, when another victim died, and two 15-year-old girls who had been killed were eulogized in poignant funeral services by their classmates and immigrant relatives.

Yet, for these poignant visual moments, the service's great power came through words, sung and spoken.

Tony could wield a pen to poignant effect, especially in the service of justice and the rule of law.