Example sentences for: hermits

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

  • Coptic Christians founded an expansive community for prayer and contemplation here in the fourth century a.d. when many monks chose to live their lives as hermits.

  • If Yeats has three hermits meet on a beach, one of them is not concerned with being a seer, but is scratching himself--"rummaging for a flea."

  • Looking again at the poetry written between 1889 and 1914, one notices the scattered petals of familiar flowers, the secondhand imagery, the automatic despondency (far too much "ancient sorrow"), the druids, fairies, hermits, and witches.


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