Sentence examples for vigil about from inspiring English sources

Nick Jonas, a straight male singer, spoke at the vigil about growing up in New Jersey.

THE waters were placid, the breeze was a balm and the Statue of Liberty was keeping her vigil about a hundred yards aft.

That evening, after almost three hundred people turned up for a vigil, about a hundred of the younger attendees marched down Church Avenue, some of them smashing windows and tossing garbage cans.

Mary Hamilton, a nurse from Demarest, N.J., joined the Teaneck vigil about the same time her son, Staff Sgt. Jesse Hamilton of the Army, left to fight in Iraq.

Orzechowski's Maryland congregation, St. Camillus Church, recently held a prayer vigil about the spill and has been phasing out use of plastic bags and disposable water bottles; some members are also active in green-gospel lobbying efforts in the nation's capital.

In college, Ms. Robbins helped bring together groups of people for marches and vigils about issues like human rights and domestic violence.

Up the hill from there, about 20 pastors led a vigil for about 350 people.

That's what the vigil is about.

In Chicago, where several thousand protesters earlier yesterday crammed Daley Plaza to hoist American flags and placards with strident criticism of President Bush, a candlelight vigil attracted about 350 people near the Water Tower on Michigan Avenue.

The candlelight vigil of about 200 people briefly became chaotic after one man ran through the crowd and pushed O'Neal's sister, Briana Adams, 23, who was quietly asking everyone to respect her brother.

On 3 March 2011, Westenra led one of the national anthems "God Defend New Zealand" in a London Westminster Cathedral vigil service together with about 5,000 Kiwis fundraising charity for her hometown Christchurch, after being devastated by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on 22 February 2011.