mother superior
Example Sentences
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She’s barely there, making a couple of brief appearances as the nuns’ mother superior back in Calcutta, but she’s as tough and vivid as ever.
From New York Times
The mother superior and several nuns have left and armed guards are patrolling the site.
From BBC
One convent said she had even pretended to be a mother superior – the head of a female religious community.
From The Guardian
The other nun, a mother superior originally from Madagascar who cared for the elderly, also found herself pregnant, the report said.
From Fox News
Though she rose to become mother superior, in 1969, she decided to leave the monastery.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
