hermit

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

I’m not a hermit, but I live in Wales, and I’m trying to regenerate the land and all this stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

He didn’t like the idea of himself peering through that screen, practically right into the face of the hermit himself.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

Augustinian hermits in della Francesca’s native Borgo San Sepolcro commissioned the altarpiece in 1454, and it hung in its original church for less than 100 years.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

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

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

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