Example Sentences

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The reef needs to be protected, she added, because it’s “an incredibly valuable resource culturally, ascetically and economically.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2018

“All her innovations and preferences call attention to themselves,” he wrote, “even though they pretend to be ascetically simplified, all ego burnt away.”

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2016

He didn’t dare flash his wad, however, so he lived ascetically in rentals, often with roommates.

From Newsweek • Feb. 19, 2015

He dresses ascetically but with flair: tight trousers, a dress shirt buttoned up and a narrow-lapelled jacket.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2011

Ralph Peden had kept his affections ascetically virgin.

From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)