monastery

Example Sentences

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She was exiled to a monastery where she wrote “The Alexiad.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mirr declined to comment on the identity of the buyer but did confirm that the person plans to use the former monastery as a home.

From MarketWatch

Anthropological analysis showed that the man buried beneath the monastery floor on Margaret Island was in his early twenties.

From Science Daily

One picture of the Vikings, she says, is of them "being raiders and pillagers and attacking monasteries - then they turn into these more peaceful Norse settlers".

From BBC

Ahead of our return to the city, we drive back up the ridge, back through Burguete, the inn still shuttered, and up to Roncesvalles, where the old monastery looms like a sentinel over the pass.

From Salon