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
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
Last year’s most unlikely bestseller was “Matrix,” a novel by Lauren Groff about an obscure medieval poet named Marie de France and a 12th-century nunnery.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 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
Vocabulary lists containing nunnery
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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