How do you use Tribulation in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like trial or visitation, plus the exact meaning.
Tribulation meaning
Any adversity; a trying period or event.
Synonyms of Tribulation
Using Tribulation
- The main meaning on this page is: Any adversity; a trying period or event.
- Useful related words include: trial, visitation, affliction.
- In the example corpus, tribulation often appears in combinations such as: great tribulation, the tribulation, and tribulation.
Context around Tribulation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tribulation
- In this selection, "tribulation" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, great, pre, release, events, period and adherents stand out and add context to how "tribulation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the great tribulation and and mid tribulation beliefs is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tribulation" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tribulation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With that growth though, comes some vice and tribulation. (9 words)
The Tribulation Period includes three sections of seven judgments each. (10 words)
The church will absolutely be on the earth during the Great Tribulation. (12 words)
The new team swings right into action against Terminus, a towering enemy that manages to swat these powerhouse Super Heroes aside like insects—and that’s only the beginning of the dangers they’ll face as part of the Tribulation Events. (41 words)
The people of Judah needed to prepare themselves to remain faithful to the Lord even in their tribulation, and if they did, the Lord would lead them out of the darkness and into glory — which happened 70 years later. (39 words)
Another feature of the pre- and mid-tribulation beliefs is the idea that after the rapture, Christ will return for a third time (when also counting the first coming) to set up his kingdom on the earth. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some pre-tribulation adherents in Protestantism believe that the apostasy mentioned in 2 Thess. 2:3 can be interpreted as the pre-tribulation Rapture of all Christians.
Earth's Mightiest Heroes will face the Tribulation Events in Jed MacKay (Captain Marvel steps up in a leadership role on the team that features Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Panther, Scarlet Witch, and Vision.
Following their highly successful sophomore recording release, Tribulation, the group has recently recorded Jubilation, a celebration of the pride and spirit of America’s mountain people featuring a spoken introduction from country superstar Dolly Parton.
Now, before Kang passed out from his injuries, he made it clear the Impossible City would unleash threats in something he calls Tribulation Events.
The new team swings right into action against Terminus, a towering enemy that manages to swat these powerhouse Super Heroes aside like insects—and that’s only the beginning of the dangers they’ll face as part of the Tribulation Events.
The Tribulation Period includes three sections of seven judgments each.
Then we need to be equipped with hope knowing that we have been exempted from the wrath to come (tribulation period), in which the “Day of the Lord” will begin.
Christians can become bitter instead of better when faced with difficulty and tribulation.
Unfortunately, many international players do not share commonality, and either out of ignorance or prejudice, they ostracize China during its period of trial and tribulation.
While many biblical scholars read the book as a story about the destruction of corrupt political systems, many evangelical Christians believe it describes the rapture — Jesus’ return to save believers from a period of tribulation.
Christian preachers counter this argument by stating that these prophesies will be fulfilled by Jesus in the Millennial Reign after the Great Tribulation.
The world has no Peace but tribulation, and can’t give what it does not have.
It is a temporary prison from which the Antichrist ascends during the tribulation (Rev. 11:7, 17:8).
Meade later revealed that the Earth is currently going through a seven-year tribulation period where we will witness a drastic rise in natural disasters.
The church will absolutely be on the earth during the Great Tribulation.
The people of Judah needed to prepare themselves to remain faithful to the Lord even in their tribulation, and if they did, the Lord would lead them out of the darkness and into glory — which happened 70 years later.
The two witnesses are prophets who will preach with great power and release God's judgments against the Antichrist's empire in the Great Tribulation.
With that growth though, comes some vice and tribulation.
Another feature of the pre- and mid-tribulation beliefs is the idea that after the rapture, Christ will return for a third time (when also counting the first coming) to set up his kingdom on the earth.
A preterist discussion of the Tribulation has its focus on the Gospels, in particular the prophetic passages in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, rather than on the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation.
Common combinations with tribulation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- great tribulation 11×
- the tribulation 7×
- and tribulation 4×
- tribulation events 3×
- tribulation period 3×
- of tribulation 3×
- tribulation and 3×
- tribulation as 2×
- tribulation of 2×