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Recent Examples of hermitIn it, Day-Lewis plays a hermit in the North England woods who’s visited by an old friend (Sean Bean) sent to bring him back to his son.—ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026 Seoul, South Korea — A young teenage girl shrouded in mystery and intrigue could very well be the next leader of the isolated hermit nation North Korea.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
13 Feb. 2026 At the same time, she becomes threatened by a minor scandal involving her dopey husband (Jack Lowden), all while dealing with her dysfunctional family, including the serial-cheater father (Woody Harrelson) who reenters her life and a brother (Spike Fearn) who has become something of a hermit.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
12 Dec. 2025 His father essentially became a hermit.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hermit
Today, Richards’s office on Rikers is situated in a small former chapel with a red brick steeple, across a stretch of lawn from the jail where he was once held in solitary.
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Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
Now in his 40s, Frank has been in prison for almost his whole adult life, spending 17 years in solitary for assaulting two of his fellow inmates.