How to Use mendicant in a Sentence

mendicant

noun
  • The mendicant was now out of his seat, leaning up against the bar.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The mendicant stubbed out his smoke and lit another one.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • With my buying him a beer and us sharing a rooting interest, the mendicant and I had settled into a détente.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • His eyes alternated between the mendicant and Bob.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But when Regis read the $64,000 question, the mendicant and I were both silent.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • One was that literary journalism anthology the mendicant had flipped through.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But those states also have Republican governors, who would have raised holy hell if their constituents had been menaced by these roving mobs of mendicants.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Nov. 2025
  • An internationally famous leader who lived a mendicant’s life.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Throughout much of Buddhist history, and particularly in Theravada Buddhist contexts, mindfulness and its associated meditation methods have been the purview of mendicants (monks and nuns), who used mindfulness meditation to achieve trance states (jhana) leading to nirvana.
    — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Guido eventually became a Dominican friar, dedicating himself to making art within the mendicant order; after his death, in 1455, he became known as Fra Angelico, or the Angelic Friar.
    — Louise Bokkenheuser, Air Mail, 4 Oct. 2025

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