Example sentences for: poignant

How can you use “poignant” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This was particularly poignant in community focus groups, as the sampling was not purposive for substance abusers; yet drug lifestyles were defining issues for the community.

  • This western side of the peninsula is rich in the poignant history of French Acadia.

  • Both are by turns persuasive, flawed, and poignant.

  • Inside there are attenuated sculptures of wide-eyed damsels, poignant religious icons, and “ordinary people,” stooped and tragic, bearing the whole weight of Hungary’s 20th-century misfortunes.

  • A number of poignant Yiddish words defy genuine translation into English:


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