Sample Sentences for
monk
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    "But God's will be done," the monk said.  (source)
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    What looked like a fat little monk was saying: "Forgive and forget, I say, we ought to give him a second chance —"  (source)
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    He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.  (source)
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    Astonished, as if he had been the object of a magic spell, the monk looked into the ferryman's eyes.  (source)
    monk = a male member of a religious order
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    He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars.'  (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order living together
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    I look around, glimpsing the simple, almost monkish furnishings of a dining room and sit ting room before the slaver grabs a fistful of my hair and pulls on it so hard I think my neck will break.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to monk means having the characteristics of a monk. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
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    He was looking at the man, with on his face an expression a little placative and baffled though not alarmed, watching the man's inscrutable and monklike face.†  (source)
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    Other times we walked slightly apart, Murray's hands clasped behind his back, Gladney's folded monkishly at the abdomen, a somewhat worried touch.†  (source)
    editor's notes: Adding "-ishly" to monk means "in a manner with the characteristics of a monk." This is the same pattern you see in words like childishly and foolishly.
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    None of my friends will believe I suddenly turned into a monk to date you.†  (source)
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    The monks bowed and moved out of the pagoda into the bright morning sunlight.  (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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    The house is a stone one, and chilly and damp; but by temperament — it must be the old New Englander in him — Simon feels a certain contempt for material self-indulgence; and as a medical student he became habituated to a monkish austerity, and to working long hours under difficult conditions.†  (source)
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    Except for Gabe Romero and Amanda Monk and that whole crowd you hang out with.†  (source)
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    The parachute-lights soar upwards—and I see a picture, a summer evening, I am in the cathedral cloister and look at the tall rose trees that bloom in the middle of the little cloister garden where the monks lie buried.  (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order who lived together
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