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contemplative - use in sentences
Converse of object
- become: No good asking me, ask the Spirit, become contemplative.
Adjective modifier
- long: A long contemplative very much like by the x-rays.
Modifies a noun
- nun: We are fortunate to have our contemplative nuns at Tymawr and now the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Llanfrechfa.
- prayer: St Peter's also has a Julian Group, which meets on the first Thursday of each month for contemplative prayer.
- mood: Some of the students going to take the exam drifted into a more contemplative mood.
- meditation: My most recent work is a series of studies on contemplative meditation.
- silence: Anyone is welcome to join us at these times in a contemplative silence from which spoken ministry may arise.
- tradition: The contemplative traditions of all religions testify to the truth of this.
Modifying Another Word
- deeply: We are being invited to become much more deeply contemplative.
- purely: Zabarella wholeheartedly endorsed the purely contemplative nature of philosophy and the superiority of the contemplative life.
- quietly: It is quietly contemplative; nothing very much happens.
- so: He was full of faith and he was so contemplative and so meditative and so in awe of the supernatural.
- also: However there are also contemplative and joyful movements and a jubilant finale.
Used with adjective complement
- become: I started out as a charasmatic evangelical, but have slowly become more contemplative!
Preposition: in
- heart: We may be doing social work in the eyes of the people, but we are really contemplatives in the heart of the world.
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