How do you use Monk in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like monastic or religious, plus the exact meaning.
Monk in a sentence
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Monk meaning
- A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
- In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
- Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
Using Monk
- The main meaning on this page is: A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service. | In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally. | Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
- Useful related words include: monastic, religious, thelonious monk, thelonious sphere monk.
- In the example corpus, monk often appears in combinations such as: the monk, monk in, monk and.
Context around Monk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Monk
- In this selection, "monk" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thelonious, adrian, meddling, movie, leading and episode stand out and add context to how "monk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a handsome monk and a novice monk in 1702. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "monk" sits close to words such as alliances, astronomical and cheers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with monk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He had the forbearance of a monk – a handsome monk. (10 words)
He was basically just The Meddling Monk, but without everything that made the Meddling Monk interesting. (16 words)
In a monastery, every young monk has a ‘staret’: an older, more experienced monk leading him,” he said. (18 words)
It is seen as being easier to live a life as a monk or nun in countries where people generally live by the culture of Buddhism, since it is difficult to live by the rules of a monk or a nun in a Western country. (45 words)
He played much of the piano himself, with Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk as major influences; for instance, he created the piano part to "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" after watching the Thelonious Monk documentary, Straight, No Chaser. (37 words)
After 16 years of study as a novice monk, in 1702 in his 20th year he rejected full ordination and gave up his monk's robes and monastic life, preferring the lifestyle of a layman. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie,” a feature film with Tony Shalhoub returning as crime-solver Adrian Monk along with other returning cast members from the 2002-2009 TV series.
In a monastery, every young monk has a ‘staret’: an older, more experienced monk leading him,” he said.
Many of Shalhoub’s former cast mates from are returning for the cast of Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie too.
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie was only just recently announced at the time of this writing.
Tony Shalboub, in suit and hat, sits on the Bluffer’s Park Beach in Scarborough during filming of the Monk episode Mr. Monk Takes a Holiday.
After more than a decade away from screens, Adrian Monk returned for one last adventure in Mr. Monk's Last Case.
He had the forbearance of a monk – a handsome monk.
He then recorded with the same unit, with Mr. Lewis replaced by Thelonious Monk, as the Thelonious Monk Quintet.
He was basically just The Meddling Monk, but without everything that made the Meddling Monk interesting.
After 16 years of study as a novice monk, in 1702 in his 20th year he rejected full ordination and gave up his monk's robes and monastic life, preferring the lifestyle of a layman.
Feeling his end approaching, Cyril became a monk, was given the new name Cyril, As is customary, when one becomes a monk in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, one receives a new name.
He played much of the piano himself, with Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk as major influences; for instance, he created the piano part to "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" after watching the Thelonious Monk documentary, Straight, No Chaser.
If even one is broken, the monk is automatically a layman again and can never become a monk in his or her current life.
It is seen as being easier to live a life as a monk or nun in countries where people generally live by the culture of Buddhism, since it is difficult to live by the rules of a monk or a nun in a Western country.
Monastic roles in the Theravada school can be broadly described as being split between the role of the (often urban) scholar monk and the (often rural or forest) meditation monk.
Monks who have been ordained to the priesthood are called hieromonk (priest-monk); monks who have been ordained to the diaconate are called hierodeacon (deacon-monk).
On January 30, 2009, Costas guest-starred as himself on the television series Monk in an episode titled " Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs "'.
That evidence comes from a monk named Eugippio, who reports in several documents going back to 511 that another monk lived here.
The life of the monk or nun in a community is much more complex than the life of the forest monk.
Aang the Airbender monk got frozen, then awoke 100 years later to a war-torn world where all the other Air Nomads were gone.
Common combinations with monk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the monk 23×
- monk in 14×
- monk and 13×
- buddhist monk 12×
- of monk 9×
- monk was 9×
- thelonious monk 8×
- monk who 8×
- monk is 5×
- malik monk 5×