postulant

Example Sentences

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While a postulant at the convent, she began to have seizures.

From Washington Times • May 28, 2019

Splendidly acted by an almost all-female ensemble, the film features particularly standout performances by Margaret Qualley as a sensitive young postulant, and by Melissa Leo as the convent’s not-unsympathetic Gorgon of a Reverend Mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2017

Her sense of vocation grew only gradually, strengthened by the years spent with the community, first as a novice and then as a postulant, or candidate to join the religious order.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 13, 2015

Born in 1905 and soon orphaned, the real Maria entered a convent as a postulant and was assigned to tutor the family of Captain von Trapp, a widower more than twice her age.

From Time • Mar. 2, 2015

“I know she’s too young to be a postulant, but there’s got to be a convent somewhere that she could go to.”

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer