Sample Sentences for
ascetic
(editor-reviewed)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    He wasn't accustomed to being talked back to, certainly not by women. ... I had turned bold and adventurous, and he even more ascetic and emotionally austere. We had become natural opponents.  (source)
    ascetic = self-denying of comfort
  • •
    In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial (especially to encourage spiritual growth)
  • •
    There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.  (source)
    ascetic = severely plain -- like one who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • •
    Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.  (source)
    ascetic = basic (without luxury -- as of someone who practices self-denial)
  • •
    In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.  (source)
    asceticism = practice of self-denial
  • •
    Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.†  (source)
  • •
    Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class ... and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence.  (source)
    ascetically = in the manner of someone who practices self-denial
  • •
    It is told that Pannalal the Sage, having sharpened his mind with meditation and divers asceticisms, had divined the operation of the lock and entered Hellwell, spending a day and a night beneath the mountain.†  (source)
  • •
    He had lank, unruly hair and the gray, meager complexion of an ascetic.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
  • •
    the asceticism that deadens the senses  (source)
    asceticism = self-denial
  • •
    Love, say the ascetics, reveals our shameful kinship with the beasts.  (source)
    ascetics = people who practices self-denial
  • •
    His suits fitted as though he had borrowed them from a stout friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now not at all so; it could have been that of an ascetic absorbed in occult pursuits.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
  • •
    Guitar, eschewing his recent asceticism, allowed himself the pleasure of waking up old dreams:  (source)
    asceticism = practice of extreme self-denial
▲ show less (of above)