poignant

In a sentence

Six example sentences with poignant, each labelled with its topic.

• The last meal cooked in that kitchen was poignant, a plain soup eaten off packing boxes on the bare floor.

  Cooking

• The most poignant moment comes when the robot hands over its last battery and the screen goes quiet.

  Gaming

• The poignant shot of an empty school corridor drew more letters than any other picture the magazine ran that year.

  Photography

• The most poignant moment of the concert was the encore, played on the old violin her teacher had left her.

  Music

• The archive holds a poignant letter from an emigrant asking his mother to keep his garden watered until he returned.

  History

• The veteran's final game was poignant, the crowd standing through the last minute as he walked off for good.

  Basketball

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