noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
silent
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At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool.
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Outside, 100 opponents of the death penalty held a silent vigil , and a handful of its supporters jeered.
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It has urged women to assemble in their streets to pray together and stage silent vigils .
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But as he began his sixth day his silent vigil ended.
■ VERB
hold
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At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool.
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Outside, 100 opponents of the death penalty held a silent vigil , and a handful of its supporters jeered.
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All the McIlkenny grandchildren are holding candles in support of the vigil for their grandfather.
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Buddhist monks dressed in ochre robes lit traditional butter lamps and held a six-hour prayer vigil at a Himalayan monastery in Sikkim.
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They have the backing of a prison reform group, and will hold a candlelight vigil outside the jail this weekend.
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Canon Oates held another vigil to mark John's five hundredth day in August.
keep
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What thanks is this for keeping vigil outside in the street nearly all night?
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He was always in the cheerful rooms upstairs, where the Sisters kept a constant vigil on premature and very sick children.
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They kept up a twenty-four-hour vigil outside Coleherne Court, and plagued her at the kindergarten.
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Time lost its familiar context, and uncertainty and foreboding colored those who kept vigil .
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Miles kept vigil by the door but began to grow tired.
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Charles departs for the opera, leaving a distraught Diana to keep a bedside vigil for two days by herself.
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All that night again Kalchu kept his vigil .
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A well-loved monument to the devotion of a little terrier who kept vigil on his master's grave for many years.
maintain
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As his devoted family maintained a constant vigil at his bedside, they were rewarded by gradual signs of improvement.
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The family are maintaining a bedside vigil for their son who suffered serious head injuries in the attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blizzard kept demonstrators away, and a planned church vigil reportedly fizzled for lack of interest.
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All the McIlkenny grandchildren are holding candles in support of the vigil for their grandfather.
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At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool.
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For Hagerman and others in his family, it was the second time they have endured such a vigil .
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They will share the vigil for tigers in every bush, and fire in every breath of wind.