How to Use monastic in a Sentence

monastic

1 of 2 adjective

• She studied for the test with monastic zeal.
• He shows a monastic dedication to his job.
• He founded a monastic order in Belgium.
• Chara, near monastic in his training, played at a trim and fit 250 pounds.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
• Like a monk leaving the monastery after a long monastic practice.
  — Ali Wentworth, Town & Country, 8 May 2022
• But the monks were aging, with no younger men, or novices, signing up for monastic life to take their place.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• That total wasn’t built on epic reading binges or monastic retreats.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
• The almost monastic stillness is broken by the rush of waves rolling onto the stony beach.
  — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
• Two days later, he was found dead in his monastic cell, possibly poisoned.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• The challenges of noise and distraction were, in fact, always part of the monastic life.
  — Kim Haines-Eitzen, The Conversation, 10 June 2019
• Families aren’t the only ones who lament when young men break from the world and enter the monastic life.
  — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Now the Bellini has been isolated in a room of its own, in a gallery bare as a monastic cell.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• She was not embalmed, and her grave was dug by hand by her sisters, said the website of the monastic order.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 27 May 2023
• The monastic project showed me how to turn loneliness into solitude.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Yet Tayang hopes to keep the monastic way of life alive, in his generation and beyond.
  — National Geographic, 8 June 2018
• In this case, the goal is to brew beer at your monastery, using the ingredients of your monastic garden.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 21 July 2018
• Her poems rise out of the monastic practice of dwelling in silence, and hers, often, is a churchless god.
  — Barbara Mahany, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2019
• Or Compline, which is this ancient monastic service with lots of candles.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2021
• Another feature is that young men can enter into monastic life for a short time and return to lay life.
  — Brooke Schedneck, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
• There’s something monastic about the way he’s taken on Red Lobster.
  — Rita Omokha, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
• The church looked askance at it, despite a tradition of monastic cheesemaking.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2021
• Louis has been doing just that — despite the challenges of monastic formation.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• This infused all aspects of monastic life—prayers, of course, but meals, work, sleep, and conversations as well.
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
• The bones were carefully arranged in a small, cleanly cut grave on grounds just outside a monastic retreat.
  — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2017
• Only a few have been found in Scotland, mainly on monastic or at least religious sites.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
• Turnstile is in keeping with that spirit, but in an evangelical rather than monastic way.
  — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
• Just a Frisian meadow, monastic rhythm, and the instruction to listen to what stirs within you.
  — Naomi May, Air Mail, 30 May 2026
• Beamore was a monastic grange farm owned by the Cistercian abbey of Beaubec in Normandy.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• Maroon and golden monastic robes had replaced his usual hoodies and sweatpants.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2026
• But as much as Tár can live a somewhat monastic musical life, her overwhelming drive is for fame and fortune.
  — Eliza Brooke, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2022

monastic

2 of 2 noun

• Most of these practitioners were monastics or ascetics.
  — Daniel M. Stuart, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
• The Bible’s message was seen as not only informative but salvific, and the monastic who memorized its words filled his or her soul with divine wisdom.
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
• For the monastics at Hsi Lai Temple, meditation isn’t a singular activity.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Historical questions remain, however, regarding whether such practices were primarily reserved for monastics or widely practiced among laypeople.
  — Daniel M. Stuart, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
• The Buddhist monastery founded by Thich Nhat Hanh regularly hosts retreats — multiple days of mindfulness practice — incorporating music and poetry for both monastics and non-monastics.
  — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023