Sentence examples for monk from inspiring English sources
"monk" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a member of a religious community who lives a life of contemplation and prayer, especially a male in the Christian faith. Example: The young monk had been praying in the monastery chapel for hours.
noun
A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
Instead I booked myself on a 10-day silent meditation retreat run by a Burmese monk in Thailand.
Visitors aren't really supposed to talk to the monks but they're a friendly sort at Pluscarden and, after mass on New Year's Day, a jovial older monk, Father Matthew, popped down to St Scholastica's to wish us well.
And we're the only ones using a 12th-century monk as a tourist guide.
A car stops and a window slides down, revealing a monk with a shaved head and grey robes.
One young monk, dressed in a woollen tank top, put on a mask of a young woman and struck a coquettish pose.
Here at the quiet limit of the world"… as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer.
During the mass Pope Francis also declared a 10th-century Armenian monk, St Gregory of Narek, a "doctor of the church".
Brother Cadfael fought in the Crusades before becoming a monk; his experience of life and his knowledge of herbs, learned from Muslims in the Holy Land, make him a humane and relatively practical voice amid the superstition, able to see clearly through the crimes that the civil war brings to Shrewsbury Abbey.
This opens the doors to everyone and places every meditator in the position of being a bhikshu (monk), who for those 10 days possesses nothing.
My monk disappears into a hall.
A twice married ex-monk, he has obviously thought a lot about that distinction.
