Example Sentences

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They tend to conjure images of monks meditating in the mountains or ascetics living in desert caves.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

"People live like ascetics for 10 years or more to educate themselves well," wrote another Zhihu user.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2023

Or consider 12th century Taoist ascetics who thought sleep deprivation could bring them closer to the truth.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2023

Atop the barren ledges are several hermit cells made of stacked rocks where, as early as the 300s, ascetics lived in extreme deprivation.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2022

Siddhartha said: 'You know, my friend, that even as a young man, when we lived with the ascetics in the forest, I came to distrust doctrines and teachers and to turn my back on them.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse