How to Use tribulation in a Sentence

tribulation

noun

• Her son's illness has been a source of great tribulation.
• The play is about the tribulations of a family of immigrants in New York.
• With thunderous praise, the group lets go of all its tribulations and thanks to the Creator across the 12 tracks.
  — Yolanda Baruch, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The tour itself has ridden the waves of Beirut’s tribulations.
  — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Green’s iPhone has been through some tribulations this year.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2023
• In short, the Amish in this novel make their trials and tribulations look too easy.
  — Mike Fischer, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• The small-scale tribulations of his life are played out in an absurdly large way.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• Cast me out in honor of the toil and tribulation of our forefathers.
  — David Means, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
• That’s a pretty good way to forget about the last school year and all of the trials and tribulations both programs dealt with.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2017
• Through all the trials and tribulations that go with losing.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Garry Kasparov has a pithy way of summing up the past 18 months of tribulation.
  — Bret Stephens New York Times, Star Tribune, 6 July 2021
• And that has powered him through tribulation and triumph over his young life.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2021
• The most affecting part of the book is how Mr. Kilmer writes about the tribulation of being stripped of one of the primary tools of his craft – his voice.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2020
• So how does one of the world’s most famous food celebrities deal with the trials and tribulations of air travel?
  — Tim Nelson, PEOPLE.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• But alas, these are the trials and tribulations of a designer.
  — Lucia Tonelli, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2019
• There’s more to come in the trials and tribulations of Sprint’s unending quest to merge with T-Mobile.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
• Everything the Knicks fought for in a season full of triumphs and tribulations, injuries and trades, now boils down to the two-best words in all of sports.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 May 2024
• Since the show went off air 14 years ago, by now Lizzie and her crew would be around 30, dealing with the trials and tribulations of early adulthood.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 31 Dec. 2018
• The trials and tribulations of adult life will arrive quickly enough.
  — Ted Crow, cleveland.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Take a deep breath as tribulations arise and be willing to swallow your pride in order to move forward.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2023
• Olivia Newton-John’s life was full of triumphs and tribulations.
  — Melody Chiu, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
• Set in the 8th century AD, Sangamithra, is a heartfelt tale of the trials and tribulations of Sangamithra and her journey to save her kingdom.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
• Of course, what made those Finals so sweet for the Mavericks was the memory of tribulation from 2006.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• And her trials and tribulations since the day of her arrest in 2009 have taken a visible toll.
  — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 June 2018
• Michael is the story of the tribulations that helped affirm that belief to Michael Render, and Killer Mike is finally ready to tell it.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 6 June 2023
• Still, compared with the upheavals of war and exile, these were minor tribulations.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Fun and love could be just around the corner -- but so could some unexpected tribulation.
  — Chicago Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
• Besides missing each other for weeks on end, one of the more difficult tribulations of our relationship was the frequent travel: One of us would fly to the other every other month or so.
  — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024
• Things aren’t all dismal, as seemingly intoned by the punishing tribulations visited upon this caring couple in the first half of the story.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024