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

Her father was out of the picture and her mother, a Parisian courtesan, had shuttled her daughter around France — to a boarding school, a countryside nursery, a nunnery.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

As in a nunnery too, there are few mirrors.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood