How to Use hermit in a Sentence

hermit

noun

• St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace.
• None of the hermit crabs that found their way into the tires could escape.
  — Sherry Liang, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
• The hermit, enmeshed in solitude for long enough, has an epiphany.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
• His only desire is to leave the world and become a hermit in the woods.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• That’s not to say that the Saalfelden hermit lives a life of luxury.
  — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Even Neil Young, known as something of a hermit, stopped in.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
• Our robin is in the thrush family, which includes the hermit thrush and wood thrush.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• The reclusive architect should get off her hermit ass and build.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2019
• Wildlife preserves were filled with hikers seeking fresh air with a side of hermit thrush.
  — Heller McAlpin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Forget hermit-thrushes; what’s the Latin name for a wild goose?
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• The veeries may have already passed through while the hermit thrushes may not have arrived quite yet.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 13 Oct. 2017
• Zdarsky lives out there, alone on the alkali desert as a hermit, his dwelling an airplane hangar.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Landowners weren’t the only ones engaged in the hermit trade.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• The rise of millennial hermits is a bit puzzling at first blush.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartzy, 15 Nov. 2019
• Dexter is now a bit of a hermit living in the wilderness, when his past begins to catch up with him.
  — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• Life in the hermit’s cell is spartan, but the nature is very beautiful.
  — Danny Lewis, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• There have been some rumors about Kim’s health and who is leading the hermit nation.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2020
• One night, someone breaks in, coshes the hermit on the head and runs off with the pig screaming under his or her arm.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2021
• Things take a turn for the worse when a mysterious hermit who haunts the forest invades their home.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Ken Babby is a baseball-team owner who doesn’t just sit in his box like a hermit away from the field and fans.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2020
• Bagan is a land of ghosts, hermits, kings, Pali scholars and lovers on a site that once was nothing but jungle.
  — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• And in one of the more intriguing episodes, Judge visits a hermit and explores how to be alone.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
• An off-the-grid New Hampshire man's days living as a hermit appear to be over.
  — Kathy McCormack, ajc, 11 Aug. 2021
• Then Birdie falls in love with Arthur Neilsen, a mountainside hermit with a scarred face.
  — Margot Harrison, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
• Nunes hasn't been a hermit since she was named the 73rd Alice in Dairyland.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
• And Gin is a hermit who knows how to use the forest herbs to heal sicknesses and end pregnancies.
  — Ron Charles, Philly.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• Read Next Search for home of medieval hermit saint leads to even more ancient find in UK.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024
• Cage plays a hermit named Robin Feld who lives in a cabin in the woods of Oregon, with his truffle pig.
  — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
• Getting Taylor Swift to (even kind of) come out of her 2017 hermit-ude?
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2017
• Luke Skywalker was a hermit living on a remote island.
  — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025