Example sentences for: contemplation

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

  • Founded in the 14th century, the monastery was built for contemplation, but also for protection against the very real threat of the Turks.

  • But Christ was not a political philosopher, he was the source of philosophy, the source of goodness, the source of contemplation.

  • The title character of this dark comedy seriously considered plans for and the “beneficial” results of nuclear holocaust; such contemplation is strangelovian .

  • When he returns from prison to his Venice Beach, Calif., home, with his hair grown back and his bloodlust replaced by an air of wary contemplation, both he and the movie shrink to the proportions of a TV set.

  • Coptic Christians founded an expansive community for prayer and contemplation here in the fourth century a.d. when many monks chose to live their lives as hermits.


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