convent school

Example Sentences

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After becoming orphaned as a teen, she went to a convent school to be educated, but she eventually returned to her family’s estate and married her neighbor Manuel Padilla, an influential politician with progressive views.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

When a group of former convent school pupils lost one of their friends at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic they decided to create a project in her memory.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2022

Her father’s job led the family to move to Cyprus, Hong Kong and eventually Japan, where Ms. Pagett attended a Yokohama convent school and began acting at age 8, playing Snow White.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2021

Gréco was a shy girl who attended a rigid convent school until her mother returned in 1933 and took her daughters to Paris.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

At the convent school, I helped the nuns with one last polishing before all the students came back.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple