Example Sentences

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There are no desert hermits in our tradition, only moms and dads tending home fires.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

There, some chose to dwell in solitude as hermits while others chose to build monasteries and live as part of communities of the faithful.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Nature lovers aren’t all hermits, hermits aren’t necessarily survivalists, and survivalists don’t have to be terrorists, and they certainly aren’t all intellectuals.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022

“We’ve asked them to be patient with us. We’ve gotten texts and emails from people saying they’re living like hermits again with delta variant, asking when is it going to be safe.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

They were wild mountains, inhabited by wild creatures: slate-colored trolls, hairy wild-men, strayed wodwos, mountain goats and mining gnomes, hermits and exiles and the occasional peak-witch.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman