Example Sentences

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And at the Archbishop’s Mansion this year, almost everyone has been monastically focused on what has become San Francisco’s newest religion: artificial intelligence.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

In 2002, the now celebrated music director of the Berlin Philharmonic was a monastically probing and intense young Russian fish out of water who made little impression.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2021

It is impossible to know what happens now to those, like Ms. Dunham, bereft of the monastically sheltered temple of instruction provided by Mr. Stewart and “The Daily Show.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 6, 2015

Other people go to church; Carrie worships at the altar of the CIA, monastically devoted to stopping another attack.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2013

He was disquieted that Philip should be so monastically out of sympathy, and he was annoyed with himself for being out of key with his friend.

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo