How to Use meditation in a Sentence

meditation

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  • She spent the morning in meditation.
  • Daily meditation helps clear his mind.
  • Once in a state of deep meditation, the other sounds of the body also align, the report says.
    — Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The meditation cushions were laid out on the concrete floor.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • The couple met in 2020 on a meditation Zoom and have been going strong ever since.
    — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Monks or people who live in much longer states of meditation, that’s their normal way of life.
    — David Marchese David Marchese Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The site is designed to be a space for meditation and reflection.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2023
  • What transpires is both a thriller and a meditation on the slippery nature of fiction.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Heineman’s 103-minute docu is a meditation on life – the peaks and the valleys – unfolding.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some people are turned off by the concept of meditation.
    — Alisa Cohn, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The jhana bliss state is not like the little uptick in well-being that comes with mindfulness meditation.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Prayer, meditation and even deep breathing can help sort that out.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 July 2023
  • Its origins lie in Zen Buddhism where it was used in tea ceremonies and as a tool for meditation.
    — goodhousekeeping.com, 1 June 2023
  • This isn’t a meditation app; here there be dragons (or, in my case, crocodiles).
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The days of solitude, meditation and hermitude have found me.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Seagrass meditation cushions and a daybed are there when a head-clearing is preferred to sweating it out on the Peloton.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 19 July 2023
  • All three projects, in their own way, are meditations on family and legacy.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Make time for things like meditation, mindfulness, yoga, breath work, or all of them!
    — Hannah Coates, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The film is a meditation on both the fallibility and the power of memory.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But the late neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s meditations on medicine, the meaning of life, and confronting death are timeless.
    — Sarah Mupo, STAT, 5 July 2023
  • An alert from the Grindr app interrupts this meditation on permanence, solitude and what truth-telling might have cost him.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Drill rapper Lil Durk trades in his me-against-the-world machismo for a tender meditation on perseverance and all the hardship he’s faced.
    — WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • That flimsiness carries over to the play itself, a shallow, yet murky meditation on an icon.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • What results is a profound meditation that blurs genre lines.
    — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, read a couple pages of a book, shift into a quick meditation, or move through some gentle stretches.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 1 Jan. 2024
  • From this story emerges thoughtful meditations on love, grief, loss, justice, and vengeance.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
  • There’s also a Jacuzzi and meditation space off the primary bedroom.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
  • His ex-wife wrote a candid piece for Thrive Global about their divorce and turning to meditation and Shamanism to get through the difficult time.
    — Audrey Schmidt, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • While studying Zen Buddhism at a monastery in China, Eisai learned of a beverage the other monks drank to help stay alert for meditation: green tea.
    — Charlene Wang De Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Prior to giving birth to Shai, the then-mom-to-be teamed up with Modern Health to launch a collection of children's meditations to learn about mental health and wellness.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023

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