How to Use hermit in a Sentence

hermit

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  • St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace.
  • The hermits who carved it out left hundreds of years ago.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
  • None of the hermit crabs that found their way into the tires could escape.
    — Sherry Liang, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The anecdote came as Trump discussed how the U.S. was close to war with the hermit nation back in 2017.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Head out, stay in, host loved ones or be a happy hermit.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Nunes hasn't been a hermit since she was named the 73rd Alice in Dairyland.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Our robin is in the thrush family, which includes the hermit thrush and wood thrush.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The hermit, enmeshed in solitude for long enough, has an epiphany.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Forget hermit-thrushes; what’s the Latin name for a wild goose?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • On Wednesday the missiles flew about 800 miles towards japan and were the first of their kind in the hermit nation.
    — Benjamin Hall, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Raury is the hermit-prophet of the Atlanta music scene.
    — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • Landowners weren’t the only ones engaged in the hermit trade.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • And in one of the more intriguing episodes, Judge visits a hermit and explores how to be alone.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Cage plays a hermit named Robin Feld who lives in a cabin in the woods of Oregon, with his truffle pig.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
  • An off-the-grid New Hampshire man's days living as a hermit appear to be over.
    — Kathy McCormack, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Modern-day hermit crabs search for goldilocks shells, too.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2021
  • One night, someone breaks in, coshes the hermit on the head and runs off with the pig screaming under his or her arm.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
  • Ken Babby is a baseball-team owner who doesn’t just sit in his box like a hermit away from the field and fans.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2020
  • There have been some rumors about Kim’s health and who is leading the hermit nation.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Is Fern a vagabond, a nomad, a pioneer, or just a hermit?
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Zdarsky lives out there, alone on the alkali desert as a hermit, his dwelling an airplane hangar.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The reclusive architect should get off her hermit ass and build.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The hermit of Mount Athos and the millionaire recluse in his Caribbean hideaway are both dropouts.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Things take a turn for the worse when a mysterious hermit who haunts the forest invades their home.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But the hermit state may be welcoming more outside help now.
    — Time, 13 May 2022
  • Cage plays Rob, a hermit in the Oregon woods who quietly hunts for mushrooms with his trusty pig, named Pig.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 July 2021
  • The rise of millennial hermits is a bit puzzling at first blush.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Tom Waits, wearing a beard like Charlton Heston’s Moses, plays a crazy hermit who sees the truth.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 June 2019
  • Perhaps Bartleby could have been conceived as a hermit in the making.
    — James Gardner, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018
  • Anthony, a hermit who lived in the desert, was not known to have been friendly with animals in the way that Francis was.
    — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023

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