hermit

Example Sentences

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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 Literature

The FBI had tracked the Unabomber futilely for 18 years before his capture in a hermit’s shack in Montana in April 1996.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Wilding, a shy man who lived alone, was known to his neighbors as a “recluse” and a “hermit.”

From Los Angeles Times

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