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How to use meditate in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, adjective

Meditate means to contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study. Example: “By meditating, I try to attune myself to the greater cosmos.”

Examples of meditate by meaning

verbTo consider; to reflect on.

  • He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels.1956, William Golding, Pincher Martin

More sentences with meditate

  • By meditating, I try to attune myself to the greater cosmos.From the entry attune
  • Not even a Chinese philosopher can meditate endlessly on gravel so we get the ball next.2021, Jean Gill, “Examining Gravel and Live-heading Roses”, in True Colours: Six Books Drawn from Life […], [United States]: The 13th…. From the entry bend it like Beckham
  • Put that in your mantra and meditate on it, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.1983 September 8, Nickie McWhirter (Knight-Ridder News Service), “No one turns me into a zombie”, in The Miami Herald, Florida, page 1C. From the entry Scientologists
  • Disguising himself, he ventured into the countryside, where he spied a muni meditating beneath a plane tree.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry muni
  • He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.1977, Angela Carter, chapter 2, in The Passion of New Eve, London: Virago Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry virid
  • During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond. From the entry massage
  • Professor Sherman, meditating upon the shocking state of American Letters, becomes a bespectacled, be-toga-ed minister, palms joined in ecclesiastical anxiety.1923 June 9, “Literary Lights—and Shades”, in Haldeman-Julius Weekly, number 1436, Girard, Kan., page 2. From the entry be-togaed
  • “Happy are only the donners of the waist-cloth whose minds always delight in meditating on the texts of the Upanishads.”1922, Yogiraja’s Disciple Maitreya (Buddha-Gaya), Discovery of the Universal Religion through a Comparative Theology Based on the Faiths…. From the entry donner
  • And he's a Godsome wonder, Abbott is," Luce meditated aloud.1912, Walter Leon Sawyer, Jack Lorimer, Freshman: Or, From Millvale High to Exmouth. From the entry Godsome
  • Then he unlaced his brown oxfords, folded up his khakied legs, adjusted his button-down collar, and proceeded to meditate for 20 minutes.2007 November 4, Claire Dederer, “The Inner Scholar”, in New York Times. From the entry khakied
  • I should like to go up into a very large, perfectly bare attic, lit by several twenty thousand candle-power arc-lamps, and there meditate.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry arc-lamp
  • Retreating, she watched these uninfluenced sinners fly riverwards for more mud; and as the result of the past few weeks' teaching, meditated on the judgment sure to overtake them.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry riverwards
  • Meditate on the steady drone and the rocking of the back and forth vacuum dance you do as you suck up the cathair, the ashes, the seeds, the stray leaves.2000, Tamaqua: Volume Seven Issue One, page 75. From the entry cathair
  • By contrast, Valéry's "Caligulism" is, above all, a narcissistic attitude which aims to achieve conquest of the Self: such an attitude intensifies Self-awareness by meditating objectively on images of power.1991, Sergio Villani, Paul Valéry on War, Power, and Civlization, page 32. From the entry Caligulism

Meaning of meditate

  1. verb To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
  2. verb To sit or lie down and come to a deep rest while still remaining conscious.
  3. verb To consider; to reflect on.

Full definition of meditate

Questions about meditate in a sentence

How do you use meditate in a sentence?
Meditate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “By meditating, I try to attune myself to the greater cosmos.”
What is a short sentence with meditate?
“He lay and meditated the sluggishness of his bowels.”
What does meditate mean?
Meditate means to contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.

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