ascetic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with ascetic, each labelled with its topic.

• Monastery life followed an ascetic rule: one meal a day, no fire in winter, and silence from dusk until dawn.

  History

• Diogenes lived so ascetic a life that a wooden cup felt like luxury and he threw it away.

  Philosophy

• Her studio is ascetic by choice: bare boards, one chair, and no window facing the street.

  Art

• The sprinter's ascetic routine allowed no sugar, no late nights, and a single rest day each month.

  Fitness

• The poet lived an ascetic life in a rented room, eating bread and writing by a single candle.

  Literature

• The founders kept the company ascetic through its first year, with folding chairs and no free lunches.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains ascetic. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Literary words

• halcyon
• anathema
• didactic
• errant
• gauche
• tortuous
• prescient
• inscrutable
• countenance
• implacable
• malfeasance
• guile