Sentence examples for a tribulation from inspiring English sources

Living with Mr. Kelley had been an adventure and a tribulation, Judy said.

Plague is a tribulation that science, technology and social engineering haven't fixed.

"A tribulation," he writes, "that is appropriate to Jews, and to all others besides.

SAN FRANCISCO — The maddening quest for street parking is not just a tribulation for drivers, but a trial for cities.

His last years had been a tribulation involving a near-fatal bacterial infection from oysters, MRSA and liver disease.

He said he had been "talking to trees – people wondered, what kind of a man wants trees for friends?" His life became a tribulation, and a survival of sorts – an industrial accident working at an abattoir in Denmark, then finding a wife – "I woke up one morning and I was married" – and having three children.

There are cells of Muslims right throughout Britain, can I hear an Amen, right throughout Britain, and this nation is going to enter into a great tribulation, a great trial".

Zion also became less a refuge from an impending tribulation than a great building project.

One suggestion is that the darkness is a deliberate inversion of the transfiguration; alternately, Jesus's earlier discourse about a future tribulation mentions the sun being darkened, and can be seen as foreshadowing this scene.

Under a giant disco ball, they ran through Us v Them, Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, You Wanted a Hit, Tribulations and a brilliant version of Yeah, which descended into an acid house workout.

Arendt conceived loneliness as a terrible tribulation.