monk

Definition:
1. A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
2. A member of a religious group of men who often live apart from other people in a monastery and who do not marry or have personal possessions.

Use 'monk' in a sentence:

• 1. In an article published by the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection2 on its website on Monday, the top discipline watchdog pointed3 out, that because of loose supervision4, the officials managing some State-owned enterprises regard the companies as such "monk flesh".
• 2. Oprah: At the time, were you wearing your monk robes?
• 3. The monks of Ettal keep the abbey in good repair.
• 4. So the monk moved the Buddhist9 idol to the left of the Taoist idol.
• 5. He became a fully ordained monk at the age of 20.
• 6. He shaved his head and became a monk.
• 7. The man was a monk from Emei mountain.
• 8. Research on the Ci Poems of the Monks in Song Dynasty.
• 9. The neighborhood monk prays at the school daily, though few hear him, except, perhaps, the stolen souls of the children.
• 10. An alarming number of Mediterranean monk seals, an endangered species, have recently died.
• 11. There are three hundred monks living in the monastery.
• 12. When the old monk heard these lines of the poem, he couldn't help laughing.
• 13. I'm sure you haven't been a monk during that time.
• 14. So all the monks in the temple busied themselves with the preparation.
• 15. The journey to the West tells how the Tang Monk went to the Western Heaven to acquire scriptures.
• 16. Buddhist monk sat with folded palms.
• 17. The little monk came all the way here in a hope that the master could point out the correct path for him.
• 18. All we know is that in 610 A.D., a monk in northern Italy first twisted the pretzel into its unusual shape.
• 19. He'd explain what his Monk character was doing in the game.
• 20. Monk: Well I can tell her myself tomorrow.
• 21. SHI MINGSHENG, NPC deputy and abbot of the Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou, Guangdong province "Every citizen should care about politics and have the consciousness of responsibility as well as love for our compatriots. And a monk should, also." ZHENG HUIQIANG, member of the CPPCC National Committee and vice-president of Tongji University.
• 22. Bai Su-Zhen disguised herself as a monk and told them she'd come to invite the Old Man to a gathering13 of the gods.
• 23. The young monk clangs the bell every morning.
• 24. The monks led an austere life in the mountains.
• 25. Xu Xian dismissed the monk politely, with no intention of serving Bai Su-Zhen the wine.
• 26. Q: I was advised to call you on how to become a monk.
• 27. Uncle is a non-tonsured monk in this temple.
• 28. He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
• 29. Both archaeologists quoted the 12th-century monk Geoffrey of Monmouth as saying the stones were thought to have medicinal properties.
• 30. Research on Communications between China and India Monks in Tang-Song Period.
• 31. One day, the eminent2 Monk3 Huai Rang of the Chan sect4 strolled into the temple hall and saw Monk Ma Zu sitting calm and upright on a rush cushion, with his palms put together and his eyes closed in deep meditation5.
• 32. He disguised himself as a monk.
• 33. Anyhow, after much consideration, the monk accepted the cow.
• 34. Ordinary Roman Catholic priests are not members of the regular clergy, but monks are.
• 35. Why live more like a Zen monk?
• 36. Purity is an idea for the yogi or the monk.
• 37. It was previously a small monastery but the authorities turned all the monks out.
• 38. John gave all his possessions away and became a monk.
• 39. Down the ages, records of when the trees bloom have been kept by monks and goes back so far, it's allowed scientists to reconstruct Japan's climate in centuries past.
• 40. The old monk replied: "Your Honour have indeed gained a half day's leisure, but I have been busy for three whole days."
• 41. The head monk gave Hu a tiny, brown robe to wear.
• 42. Mediterranean monk seals are the only species of seal in the area where the bacterium was found.
• 43. The monk told her to take a large clay jug from his kitchen, fill it with water, and stand on the sidewalk in front of his house.
• 44. He worked very hard and became a great monk.
• 45. Thus, the monk and the Taoist priest kept on moving the two idols right and left until the idols were broken into pieces in the end.
• 46. There is a calm wisdom in this old saying that impressed me when I heard it first from a monk of a Buddhist monastery in China.
• 47. They asked, 'why did you have to show the monk like that?
• 48. I was advised to call you on how to become a monk.
• 49. The monks prayed daily for grace.
• 50. The Buddhist monk disrooted a tree.
• 51. The monks lived a very ascetic life.
• 52. This is quite strange, as I am not a monk.
• 53. He was stabbed to death in a traffic jam in Paris when his carriage gets blocked in the center of Paris, and this mad monk sticks a big knife into him.
• 54. Halfway through this remarkable quotation, the girl morphs into the monk.
• 55. Being a monk requires dedication and obedience to the abbot.
• 56. By the Jin dynasty, zhu Dawson monks here, though full of public health argued, lotus koutu to attract" thousands block," but those few letters.