nunnery

Example Sentences

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Get me to a nunnery, but I’m weary of presenting filmland’s biggest honor to the kind of movie people rarely want to watch twice.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the opportunities reserved for monks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2024

Mornings inside the nunnery are filled with the thuds of heavy footsteps and the clanking of swords as the nuns train under Ms. Lhamo’s tutelage.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

Working his family mercilessly, he causes his Chinese-born wife to retreat to a Buddhist nunnery.

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022

My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath