ascetic

Example Sentences

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He was neither financially stable nor ascetic enough to commit to the artist’s lot without the remarkable self-sacrifice of his wife, Annalee.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A jar of homemade pumpkin butter, if you’re feeling ambitious, turns even the most ascetic bowl into a minor celebration.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2025

But to devotees of ascetic Buddhist practice in Japan, this is much more than a mummified human being.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

“There’s something ascetic about him,” says his friend, actor-activist Peter Coyote.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023

He dreamt that Govinda stood before him, in the yellow robe of the ascetic.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse