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 was a Hello Girl and now I am here, a hermit in a boardinghouse, protected by a disheveled fortress of my dirty clothes and empty tins, and Theo knows absolutely nothing.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

There, some chose to dwell in solitude as hermits while others chose to build monasteries and live as part of communities of the faithful.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Big Sur has inspired poets and artists, lured homesteaders, hermits and hippies, and drawn millions of tourists each year.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

Nature lovers aren’t all hermits, hermits aren’t necessarily survivalists, and survivalists don’t have to be terrorists, and they certainly aren’t all intellectuals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Now and again the bridge people crept out of the library like hermits to watch the dancers, and then returned again.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier