Words similar to ascetic

Example sentences for: ascetic

How can you use “ascetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Members are portrayed as ascetic and hard-nosed, men you can respect even if you don't agree with them.
You would think that cultivating a taste for such ascetic modes of enjoyment would be at least as effective a diet strategy as glorifying blubber, but Klein fails to entertain this possibility.
But the life of an ascetic and the wisdom of Hindu teachers did not satisfy his quest.
Was he a "sheeted ascetic & do-gooder" or a "major influence" on mass movements everywhere?
Koyasan was already known as a sacred site for ascetic practices when Kobo Daishi, a revered Buddhist priest, teacher, and scholar, received imperial permission to establish a religious community to develop his new Shingon sect in 816.