nun

Example Sentences

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One of my grandfather’s most repeated stories was about a nun who gave him a new school uniform because the other kids were making fun of how small and worn his old one was.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 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

While the girls sewed, a nun read aloud so that no-one talked.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

Rendiles, the nun who overcame a disability, is less well known to Catholics in Venezuela.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

I thought I might see how long you had to be a Catholic before you became a nun, so I asked my mother, thinking she'd know the best way to go about it.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath