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How to use tribulation in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Tribulation means any adversity; a trying period or event. Example: “I went through my usual trials and tribulations of the day, and now I am here visiting you.”

Examples of tribulation by meaning

nounAny adversity; a trying period or event.

  • It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.1944 June 27, Herbert Hoover, speech in Chicago, Illinois, to the 23rd Republican National Convention; quoted in Linda Carol Harms Case...
  • Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations.2009 September 24, Richard Corliss, “Kristina: A new musical from the ABBA guys”, in Time, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2016

More sentences with tribulation

  • I went through my usual trials and tribulations of the day, and now I am here visiting you.From the entry trials and tribulations
  • Moreover, by and by the Church will come "out of the tribulation, the great one," the sum total of all tribulations.1998, William Hendriksen, More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation, →ISBN. From the entry sum total
  • There is one of each on your street, the younger mayhap heading for the tribulations already unmurmuringly borne by the older.1983, Peter De Vries, chapter 4, in Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 50. From the entry mayhap
  • Chingchou Prefecture, comprising several counties in Hupei Province, suffered a disastrous three years, and its tribulations were not unique.1963, Robert S. Elegant, “The Rich Impoverished, the Poor Starving”, in The Centre of the World: Communism and the Mind of China, London…. From the entry unprecedently
  • Just as agnosy is the great evil to the Hermetist, so is Parzival's zwivel at the root of all his tribulations.1963, Zeitschrift Für Romanische Philologie, page 340. From the entry agnosy
  • She was very handsome and she went through great tribulations.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Delights of Anticipation”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page &…. From the entry as anything
  • I should warn the busy reader, however, that the after-dinner mint of Felix Finch is merely the aperitif of my own peripatetic tribulations.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, pages 146-147. From the entry snappy
  • The tribulations of a celluloid cutie are minor items when two brontosauri begin to muss up a whole forest in mortal combat.1925 February 21, “Moving Pictures”, in The New Yorker, volume 1, number 1, New York City, New York, United States: F-R Pub. Corp., →ISSN…. From the entry brontosauri
  • Gregory Stevenson suggests, do the supernatural trials and tribulations of the Winchesters appeal because they merely hold a mirror to the more mundane terrors we all face every day?2009, Leah Wilson, In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural, page 39. From the entry hold a mirror to
  • Before this, she was almost existenceless, 'asleep'; following this, whatever her tribulations and complications, she has been firmly awake, and most passionately and gratefully back in the world.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry existenceless

Meaning of tribulation

  1. noun Any adversity; a trying period or event.

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Questions about tribulation in a sentence

How do you use tribulation in a sentence?
Tribulation is used as a noun. For example: “I went through my usual trials and tribulations of the day, and now I am here visiting you.”
What is a short sentence with tribulation?
“She was very handsome and she went through great tribulations.”
What does tribulation mean?
Tribulation means any adversity; a trying period or event.

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