Refine this word faster
Poignant
"Poignant" in a Sentence (13 examples)
The eating of delicious food is one of the most intense and poignant pleasures of life.
The incident was so poignant.
I thought Tom's poem was really poignant.
The poignant ending of the movie made all of us cry.
Garrulous as he may have been, that old philosopher made some very poignant arguments about economics and society.
In Torrecilla de la Abadesa, it was a poignant day when Ángela López left the village school and its doors were locked for the last time.
His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...].
A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke.
Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
Show 3 more sentences
A particularly poignant example of this is a child called Genie (see Curtiss 1977; Rymer 1993), who was deprived of speech input and kept locked up on her own in a room until age thirteen. When eventually taken into care and exposed to intensive language input, her vocabulary grew enormously, but her syntax never developed.
Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.
His comments were poignant and witty.
See also for "poignant"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: poignant