How to Use hermitage in a Sentence
hermitage
noun- On weekends he escapes to his hermitage in the mountains.
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For more than 350 years, a quiet, little hermitage has sat above the Austrian town of Saalfelden.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
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Today, there are two lodges, two cottages, a hermitage cabin, and eight RV sites.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
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The exterior of my hermitage was washed the color of runny egg yolk.
—Jeff Sharlet, Harpers Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
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Many saw it as their path back to a pre-Covid life, or at least to seeing family and friends again after a two-year hermitage.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
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So large has Merton’s influence been on Brandt that the latter even named his hermitage Merton House.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
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Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage, which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
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The hermitage of our rescuer Manaki Devi is more modest.
—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 June 2019
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At the exhibit opening, guests received lollipops showing the Hermitage as if seen through a convex mirror.
—Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 3 July 2017
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The site of Chapelle Dom Hue contains the ruins of what excavators believe is a religious retreat, or hermitage, which de Jersey said dates back to the 14th century.
—Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2017
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In 1830, a baker who was praying to recover from illness bargained for his life in exchange for making an annual pilgrimage to the saint's hermitage.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2018
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This doesn’t mean total hermitage at a time when the economy is desperately in need of participation.
—Chris Wilson, Time, 12 Nov. 2021
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There was no one who contended or cried out, or drew attention to what was going on, but by degrees the woody swamp became a hermitage, a religious house, a farm, an abbey, a village, a seminary, a school of learning, and a city.
—Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
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Perhaps the most memorable corner of Jeollanam-do is Chunjinam, the tranquil hermitage where Jeong Kwan resides.
—Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2021
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Now Mr McCreadie is almost ready to lay down a second album and, in preparation for recording, the musician will resume his countryside hermitage.
—G.k. | Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
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Janakananda, who built the Encinitas hermitage, succeeded him as Fellowship president until his own death three years later in Borrego Springs.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
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Built out of a cave on a rocky outcropping above a nearby castle, the small, simple dwelling is one of Central Europe’s last remaining hermitages to be continuously occupied.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
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Built out of a cave on a rocky outcropping above a nearby castle, the small, simple dwelling is one of Central Europe’s last remaining hermitages to be continuously occupied.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
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While the hermitage’s inhabitant will have the residence and adjoining chapel to themselves, there is no heat or running water, Cara Giaimo reports for Atlas Obscura.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
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Manyava flourished, becoming the dominant hermitage in Galicia, until its abrupt closure in 1785, the dispersal of its monks, and the confiscation of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis and other icons.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
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Justice The veteran French duo emerges from studio hermitage approximately every five years, and 2017 was a particularly strong return.
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2018
- On weekends he escapes to his hermitage in the mountains.
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For more than 350 years, a quiet, little hermitage has sat above the Austrian town of Saalfelden.
—Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
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Today, there are two lodges, two cottages, a hermitage cabin, and eight RV sites.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 16 July 2022
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The exterior of my hermitage was washed the color of runny egg yolk.
—Jeff Sharlet, Harpers Magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
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Many saw it as their path back to a pre-Covid life, or at least to seeing family and friends again after a two-year hermitage.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 23 July 2022
-
So large has Merton’s influence been on Brandt that the latter even named his hermitage Merton House.
—Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
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Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage, which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
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The hermitage of our rescuer Manaki Devi is more modest.
—Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 June 2019
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At the exhibit opening, guests received lollipops showing the Hermitage as if seen through a convex mirror.
—Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 3 July 2017
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