Example sentences for: meditation

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

  • Favorite projects include a Duke University study on the relationship between prayer and longevity, and research at Johns Hopkins into how meditation alters brain activity.

  • Finally, seated in meditation beneath a pipal tree at Bodh Gaya in India, the “Four Noble Truths” were revealed to him.

  • Swift's “Meditation upon a Broomstick,” for instance, impressed the Countess of Stanford as deeply pious instead of hilariously parodic.

  • Indeed, all Lacan's writing is an elaborate meditation on the ways in which--and the structures by which--we can never be transparent to ourselves.

  • Steiner opens the collection with "The Uncommon Reader," a tour-de-force meditation on Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting Le Philosophe lisant , which becomes, through attentive reading of details--"his folio, his hourglass, his incised medallions, his ready quill"--an emblem for the vanishing culture of book and reader.


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