nun

Example Sentences

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"Up until the 2000s you would see maybe a nun or a priest quietly outside the clinic, but since about 2013 we were seeing groups like 40 Days for Life protesting," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2026

She won the 1996 Best Actress Oscar for "Dead Man Walking", where she played a nun who supports a man sentenced to death.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s a genuine calamity—there are deaths, as well as displacement of babies and the ill, including one nun recently diagnosed with tuberculosis but who had no choice but to continue caring for the kids.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Chen, a devoutly religious teenager, had always felt different from other girls: She had, from a young age, felt a calling to be a nun.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025

Instead of answering, Jerome turns back to the little nun.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz