How to Use monastic in a Sentence

monastic

adjective

• She studied for the test with monastic zeal.
• He shows a monastic dedication to his job.
• He founded a monastic order in Belgium.
• The find sheds new light on monastic life in the 5th century A.D.
  — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• Chara, near monastic in his training, played at a trim and fit 250 pounds.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• Now the Bellini has been isolated in a room of its own, in a gallery bare as a monastic cell.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• The challenges of noise and distraction were, in fact, always part of the monastic life.
  — Kim Haines-Eitzen, The Conversation, 10 June 2019
• But the monks were aging, with no younger men, or novices, signing up for monastic life to take their place.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• The almost monastic stillness is broken by the rush of waves rolling onto the stony beach.
  — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
• At Jil Sander and Loewe, the look had a covered-up, monastic air to it, but the street style takes were a bit more eccentric.
  — Vogue, 11 Mar. 2019
• Families aren’t the only ones who lament when young men break from the world and enter the monastic life.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Beamore was a monastic grange farm owned by the Cistercian abbey of Beaubec in Normandy.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• Like a monk leaving the monastery after a long monastic practice.
  — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 8 May 2022
• She was not embalmed, and her grave was dug by hand by her sisters, said the website of the monastic order.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 27 May 2023
• Yet Tayang hopes to keep the monastic way of life alive, in his generation and beyond.
  — National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• In this case, the goal is to brew beer at your monastery, using the ingredients of your monastic garden.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 21 July 2018
• Her poems rise out of the monastic practice of dwelling in silence, and hers, often, is a churchless god.
  — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2019
• The monastic grounds, near the north end of O'Neill Regional Park, are embedded in the natural terrain of the canyon.
  — Ben Brazil, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• At the same time, at the Red House, Pianon is seated at one end of the long table, picking at a monastic meal of cooked vegetables.
  — Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• Their 38-year-old son, Patrick, nicknamed Trick, has pursued a monastic life in Nepal and Berlin, hoarder of his own secrets.
  — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Their System may have had a monastic tinge to it, but Sarah was ardently anti-Catholic.
  — Longreads, 17 Apr. 2018
• The monastic project showed me how to turn loneliness into solitude.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• It's attached to the oldest remaining monastery in Styria (a state in Austria) and contains the largest monastic library in the world.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2023
• The New Melleray Trappists will be at home with their monastic family, too.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• Their work draws from Black music of the South, blues, gospel, wailing and Eastern monastic traditions.
  — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
• Students breeze through a grassy quad dotted with religious statues, relics of the site’s monastic past.
  — Ben Teitelbaum, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Records show that builders added a second floor to the sacristy during the 1380s, when construction work was taking place across the monastic complex.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
• Shaw, who died in 2014, was a monk who had been part of the Society of St. John the Evangelist monastic community.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2023
• And though the house is small, the bedrooms are larger than the spartan, monastic sleeping spaces Wright designed early on.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 9 June 2018
• Are we supposed to indulge the pretense that Democrats and the press will, in the interim, adhere to monastic silence about January 6, the charges, and Trump’s culpability?
  — The Editors, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023

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