How to Use ashram in a Sentence

ashram

noun

• People who ask a lot of questions end up at the ashram.
  — National Geographic, 8 July 2016
• His first stop was Gandhi's home, where Trump donned a prayer shawl and removed his shoes to walk through the humble ashram.
  — Jill Colvin, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2020
• All the other people that were there at the ashram were very sweet and respectful to the Beatles.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• But there is a huge picture of Rama Setu outside the ashram.
  — Kai Schultz, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• Gandhi, just released from prison, returned to his home at the ashram a few days after Gregg arrived.
  — John Charles Wooding, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2019
• Trump, wearing a white cloth scarf over his dark suit and gold tie, also scrawled his signature in the ashram's official guest book.
  — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2020
• The idea of self-care may be antithetical to the city’s heritage, but these treatments don’t exactly take their cues from the ashram.
  — Andrea Bennett, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2020
• Only available at the ashram, and now out of print, the cassettes have long been sought by collectors, selling for as much as $450 apiece on the internet.
  — Mike Rubin, New York Times, 2 May 2017
• At the ashram, our days were structured around meditations, sharing thoughts with the group; meals, and a final satsang or sermon late at night.
  — Genevieve Walker, Bon Appetit, 27 Apr. 2017
• For a small donation visitors can take a coconut from the ashram, tie it to a fence post and collect it later after a priest blesses it.
  — Omar Mouallem, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• From his adolescent years at an ashram in India, Sri Chinmoy was an advocate for world peace.
  — Ben Pryor, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2022
• The Class remotely 6 days a week, or, in days gone by, spending over a month in silent meditation at an Indian ashram.
  — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
• Rory is defending a large movie studio against a charge that the script for its next blockbuster was stolen from a big-name star who has been cocooned in an ashram in India lo these many years.
  — Roberta Alexander, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2017
• Spartan accommodation in ashrams has made way for a Hyatt hotel and tour groups of as many as 1,200 people.
  — Kai Schultz, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• For a spell in the 1930s, Mohandas Gandhi oversaw an ashram here, until the independence movement lured him back to lower ground.
  — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• The path to enlightenment runs through Vana, a 21-acre ashram nestled into a valley in the Himalayan foothills near the northern Indian city of Rishikesh, also known as the birthplace of yoga.
  — Jennifer Fernandez, Town & Country, 5 Nov. 2019
• Satprem is a harsh taskmaster whose edicts result in conflict between the residents of Auroville and its governing body at an ashram in Pondicherry.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
• First exposed to the practice as a kid growing up on an ashram in Connecticut, he’s been committed to meditating daily since 2003.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• Besides pilgrims, Westerners pour in for the town’s annual yoga festival or to study in its many ashrams and ayurvedic medicine institutes.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2019
• Meditation began calling itself mindfulness and has left the ashram for the boardroom.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
• The cookbook included many recipes from the Bhagwan’s native country, presumably perfected on his ashram in Pune.
  — Melissa Locker, Bon Appetit, 4 May 2018
• When the guru left his ashram early Friday for the hearing, he was accompanied by a convoy of more than 180 vehicles, Singh, the Punjab chief minister, said.
  — Shonal Ganguly and Nirmala George, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Shukla emphasised that the children were not registered with the Sevadham ashram, but were living there in quarters that their mother had been given.
  — Aarefa Johari, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2022
• After years in the kitchen at an underground ashram in Communist Plovdiv, the native Bulgarian had gone to India to study local cooking.
  — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2017
• After years in the kitchen at an underground ashram in Communist Plovdiv, the native Bulgarian had gone to India to study local cooking.
  — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appetit, 1 Mar. 2017
• By the seventies Bhagwan had created an ashram—a spiritual community—in the city of Pune in India.
  — Patti Safian, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2018
• Gandhian Amrut Modi, an administrator of the ashram, was at best dismissive of the whole affair.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 24 Feb. 2020
• The animals are now working as bovine therapists at a nonprofit ashram of sorts called the Gentle Barn, located in the small, rural community of Dittmer, Missouri.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
• Or Vana retreat in India, set on the slopes of a lychee and mango plantation, is an international ashram, a wellness retreat and sanctuary.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• In the decades since, rampant construction of yoga and meditation ashrams, guesthouses and hotels, cafes and shops, and headquarters for rafting and trekking companies has cluttered the hills.
  — Patrick Scott, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024