How to Use hermitage in a Sentence

hermitage

noun
  • The exterior of my hermitage was washed the color of runny egg yolk.
    — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 2019-11-19
  • The exterior of my hermitage was washed the color of runny egg yolk.
    — Jeff Sharlet, Harpers Magazine, 2019-11-25
  • Today, there are two lodges, two cottages, a hermitage cabin, and eight RV sites.
    — Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 2022-07-16
  • Many saw it as their path back to a pre-Covid life, or at least to seeing family and friends again after a two-year hermitage.
    — Jason Mast, STAT, 2022-07-23
  • The hermitage was his summer hideaway, a place for monthslong vacations with family and friends.
    — Aimee Farrell, New York Times, 2024-03-15
  • The hermitage of our rescuer Manaki Devi is more modest.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 2019-06-11
  • The novel’s narrator, a botanist, lives there in a hermitage, working with his brother to catalogue the flora of the region.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2023-06-26
  • For more than 350 years, a quiet, little hermitage has sat above the Austrian town of Saalfelden.
    — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 2017-01-17
  • At the exhibit opening, guests received lollipops showing the Hermitage as if seen through a convex mirror.
    — Sophie Pinkham, New Republic, 2017-07-03
  • This doesn’t mean total hermitage at a time when the economy is desperately in need of participation.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 2021-11-12
  • So large has Merton’s influence been on Brandt that the latter even named his hermitage Merton House.
    — Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 2022-09-08
  • Most of this writing was done at the Encinitas hermitage, which was secretly built for Yogananda as a surprise during his years abroad.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-01-04
  • In 1830, a baker who was praying to recover from illness bargained for his life in exchange for making an annual pilgrimage to the saint's hermitage.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 2018-03-05
  • There was no one who contended or cried out, or drew attention to what was going on, but by degrees the woody swamp became a hermitage, a religious house, a farm, an abbey, a village, a seminary, a school of learning, and a city.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 2022-03-03
  • Meanwhile, hikers trace goat paths to the secluded Tatevi Anapat Hermitage, where wind rustles through fig trees and the only sound is the echo of footfalls on ancient stone.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Now Mr McCreadie is almost ready to lay down a second album and, in preparation for recording, the musician will resume his countryside hermitage.
    — G.k. | Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Economist, 2019-08-09
  • From the Mirador de Sant Joan at the top of the funicular, hikers can choose from several routes of varying difficulty that lead to different hermitages in the mountains.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 2023-03-27
  • Justice The veteran French duo emerges from studio hermitage approximately every five years, and 2017 was a particularly strong return.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 2018-03-22
  • An excavation in Lincolnshire revealed what appears to be a sacred site Archaeologists digging through a field in Lincolnshire, England, may have found a 1,300-year-old hermitage on the site of a much more ancient henge.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 2024-04-08
  • Manyava flourished, becoming the dominant hermitage in Galicia, until its abrupt closure in 1785, the dispersal of its monks, and the confiscation of the Bohorodchany Iconostasis and other icons.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-05-05

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