hermit

The first were spartan nooks, just large enough to shelter one hermit from the elements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Wildlife enthusiast Fred, who had just turned six at the time of filming in the summer and autumn of 2024, enjoyed spotting scorpions, snakes, monkeys, monitor lizards, eagles, hermit crabs, geckos and flying lemurs.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026

And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

The pilgrim, a professor, a monk, and some sort of hermit all meet and hash over things.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

There are no desert hermits in our tradition, only moms and dads tending home fires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

There, some chose to dwell in solitude as hermits while others chose to build monasteries and live as part of communities of the faithful.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Nature lovers aren’t all hermits, hermits aren’t necessarily survivalists, and survivalists don’t have to be terrorists, and they certainly aren’t all intellectuals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Neither study includes information about the culture of dating in Seattle, the friendliness of the inhabitants or the weather that can turn even the most jovial into hermits.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck