keep vigil

Examples (10)

• He told the gatekeeper to keep vigil.
• The parents decided to keep a bedside vigil for their ailing child.
• Community members will keep a silent vigil for the victims of the tragedy.
• Soldiers were ordered to keep constant vigil at the border.
• During the holy night, the monks would keep vigil in prayer.
• She kept a lonely vigil by the phone, hoping for a call.
• It is crucial that we keep a careful vigil over the endangered species.
• They had been keeping vigil for two days when the rescue team finally arrived.
• The young knight chose to keep vigil in the chapel the night before his knighting ceremony.
• Environmental activists plan to keep vigil outside the parliament to protest the new law.