Words similar to monk

Example sentences for: monk

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

At the northern edge of the district is Bozu Jigoku (“Monk’s Hell”), an obscenely bubbling mud pond where a Buddhist temple once stood until it was submerged in an earthquake back in the 15th century.
Carved from the cliffside by a monk starting in the year 713, its height is 71 m (233 ft).
French radical leftist; Dreyfusard, erstwhile bleeding-heart supporter of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly convicted of treason in 1894 and exonerated in 1906; Cagoulard (from French wearer of a monk's cowl), a member of a sort of 1930s French Ku Klux Klan; and Communard, an adherent of the Commune of Paris, a group that took over the municipal government of the French capital and played a leading role in the post-revolutionary Reign of Terror.
(Note to Ben and Jerry: Humping Monk ice cream?)
(In informal conversation, lama is used to refer to any Tibetan Buddhist monk.)