hermit

The first were spartan nooks, just large enough to shelter one hermit from the elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

In the 2009 film “Get Low,” he was a backwoods hermit who staged his own funeral.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

Wildlife enthusiast Fred, who had just turned six at the time of filming in the summer and autumn of 2024, enjoyed spotting scorpions, snakes, monkeys, monitor lizards, eagles, hermit crabs, geckos and flying lemurs.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

I guess any kind of pet’s okay once you get used to it, but I wouldn’t trade Shiloh for all the hermit crabs in the world.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

There are no desert hermits in our tradition, only moms and dads tending home fires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

“I can’t imagine turning into hermits and not enjoying making music,” Debbie Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023

Many isolated hermits continued to dwell in northern Egypt.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Neither study includes information about the culture of dating in Seattle, the friendliness of the inhabitants or the weather that can turn even the most jovial into hermits.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

The women were going to hike ten miles through the wilderness to see some hermit nuns who wouldn’t be hermits anymore once they got there.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye