How to Use ascetic in a Sentence

ascetic

adjective

• His father is a pastor with an ascetic hatred of the body.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• There is an ascetic aspect to him that is very genuine.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• On the remote, swampy world of Dagobah, Luke is taught the ways of the Jedi by a goblin-like ascetic known as Yoda.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• Ichiro is sleek and lithe, his ascetic face framed by wraparound shades.
  — Alex Belth, Esquire, 2 Apr. 2017
• But, this isn’t an ascetic boot camp — the resort is pure luxury.
  — Sandra Ramani, Robb Report, 7 May 2022
• There was still an epicure lurking in her ascetic heart.
  — Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 9 Aug. 2019
• Stanislavski saw his students as votaries in an ascetic cult.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• They were hidden in jars in caves near Qumran, home to members of an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes.
  — Andrew Lawler, National Geographic, 2 June 2020
• Around the sixth century, a group of ascetic monks withdrew from society to crags rising from the ocean.
  — National Geographic, 10 May 2019
• To other people, his ascetic life might not have looked like freedom.
  — Claire Dederer, The Atlantic, 4 May 2021
• The man himself, tall and ascetic, hair swept back from a high forehead, is a visitor from the 19th century.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• An ascetic who rises early to exercise, Khama seems to care more for the facts than flattery.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• In 1601 a religious ascetic named Ihor Manyaski retreated to this gorge and built a crude hut on the hillside.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
• Unlike his ascetic approach, she's found ways to suck the marrow from life and is the only one able to emphasize his own hypocrisy.
  — EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Judean wilds are full of others seeking clarity, plus a wicked merchant named Musa sent to test and torment the young ascetic from Galilee.
  — Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
• Putting one on the sleek, black rectangle of your iPhone thus concocts a syrupy mélange of lithe modernism and ascetic medievalism.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019
• Ms. Celmins, 78, keeps a clipping of the ascetic abstractionist Ad Reinhardt’s 12 rules for painting, one of which is to avoid form at all costs.
  — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
• An ascetic lifestyle was required to resist these forces.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
• Kanojia went on to tell the story of the aristocrat who became an ascetic, who taught that life is suffering.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
• His ascetic life is an attempt to impose order on the painful messiness of his memories.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2021
• Now after years of ascetic devotion, San Diego’s most quirky eco-warrior may be winning the battle for hearts and minds.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
• But Carlos turned out to be something of an ascetic, and that guided his career in several ways.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2023
• While this year’s weather was milder, the tone set by Sequoia was similarly ascetic.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 July 2024
• As such, the public areas downstairs are decidedly ascetic, as were rural homes of the era.
  — Tom Delavan, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• Cummings is a Savonarola figure in British politics, an ascetic and a technocrat, who wants to save the state by burning it down.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• Quirky and austere, air plants achieve ascetic transcendence.
  — Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
• Saint enters that canon with its tale of monk Aiden Bell and his quest to determine which is a holier choice — his life as an ascetic monk or his love for Elijah Iverson?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• And his behavior, in his last days, casts a shadow over his reputation as an ascetic.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 28 July 2014
• Get our daily newsletter The shift away from this ascetic stance started shortly after the election.
  — The Economist, 27 July 2019
• Here's what's going on with the ascetic, monk-style travel trend (with an unfortunate name) taking TikTok by storm.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024