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monk English

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monk

A monk is a person who lives in an abbey or monastery and who has devoted his life to religion. The monk lives in the abbey.

monk

a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

Monk

United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

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Monk English » English

Thelonious Sphere Monk Thelonious Monk

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Simple sentences

I am a monk.
Tom decided to become a monk.
I'm a monk.
The cowl does not make the monk.
He lives like a monk.
Tom lives like a monk.
Tom talked about becoming a monk.
Desperation makes the soldier or the monk.
The monk is praying.
Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century.
Tom has decided to become a monk.
I think I want to be a monk.
Who am I actually: a monk dreaming he's a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it's a monk?
Tom is a monk.
He decided to become a monk.

Movie subtitles

A TALE of the modern re-appearance of an 11th Century Myth involting the strange and mysterious influence of a mountebank monk over a somnambulist.
A strange hunter, this lame monk whom the Lt. General seemed fated to meet in the most unlikely circumstances.
Down steep slopes to the valley of the Batuecas inhabited by a solitary monk and his maid.
I'm going to the Monk's Rest.
I can still beat you to the Monk's Tower.
Go be a monk, then.
I was born a musician and they sent me off to be a monk.
He was a clever monk, that Berthold Schwarz.
Simple monk, where did you come from?
There's a pig monk outside looking for you.
Baby, that pig monk is a friend of mine.
Where is that monk now?
HOW'S MONK?
SIR, ISN'T THAT A PICTURE OF CAPTAIN MONK HAUSER?
It is good the monk is here, we can save on the funeral.
The flag indicates that praying for the health of the yurta's owner are a lama a learned monk-healer and a collector of taxes for the monastery.
Don't do me any favours, Monk.
To monk varney's up in aberdeen.
And how do we get there? I've got it all fixed. Monk's got a car in a garage over on bristol street.
Margo, I have lived in the theatre as a Trappist monk lives in his faith.
He couldn't detect a monk in a convent.
You must walk the part. If you itch but do not scratch, then perhaps you'll look like our monk.
But your eyes lit up like those of a mad monk when you heard our tzar's daughter might be alive. That was ridiculous.
Hey, that monk's here again.
That's the same as the one that monk had.
Did you meet the monk too?
Shave your head like a monk.
Shut up, monk!
Quit that strumming, monk! It's depressing!
He asked a monk to shave his head and lend him his robes.
I'm a monk.
I'm just a monk. I mean you no harm.
Japan was torn between this Monk-Emperor and the Imperial Court of the current Emperor, Toba.
I could be a monk's son?
Now I could also be the son of a debauched monk!

News and current affairs

Nalanda received hundreds of Chinese students in its time, and a few Indians went the other way; a Buddhist monk from India built the famous Lingyin Si temple in Huangzhou in the fifth century.
After all, he starred in the 2011 film about the life of the mad monk Grigory Rasputin.
Indeed, President Thein Sein's government has begun to release thousands of political prisoners, including the monk who led the massive street protests of 2007.

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