How to Use nunnery in a Sentence

nunnery

noun
  • The area around the nunnery is not an easy place to live.
    — Robert Presutti, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Join a nunnery, there'll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Joina nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Joina nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Joina nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Oh married and had four children, who grew up on the rambling grounds of the nunnery.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The Murphy, built in 1884 as a nunnery and boarding house, became a hub.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Sadly, this is not true of most nunneries, despite the desire of the nuns to learn and grow.
    — Antonia Neubauer, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Next came the editing process amid the stillness at the nunnery, where Willi says much of the challenge had to do with soundwork.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2022
  • At noon, crimson-robed nuns flocked to a gathering at the main nunnery.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2016
  • Lyra, one hero, has just been born, and spirited away for her safety to a nunnery in Godstow.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • There’s a nunnery down the street, and sometimes nuns will come up and there are very friendly interactions.
    — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
  • When Lee first began volunteering 20 years ago, the nunnery was home to about 30 nuns.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Dec. 2019
  • What’s more, her structured top boasted an off-the-shoulder shape as well as side cut-outs that would be less than welcome in a nunnery.
    — Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 7 May 2018
  • Father Vapnik lied to his congregants the next Sunday, said that the horse had taken Ina up the mountain and left her safe and sound at the nunnery.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • The archdiocese argued that Holzman and others did not have the right to sell the nunnery, however.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • He’d been orphaned during the Korean War and had spent three decades as a handyman in a Busan nunnery.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Villiam’s grandfather, traumatized by the death of his father, took the priest’s advice and ordered Ina to be sent to the nunnery.
    — Ottessa Moshfegh, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
  • Novitiate Get thee to a nunnery, a sheltered place where young women go to find refuge from a cold and unforgiving world.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Despite having been raised a nonpracticing Christian, my visit to the nunnery, which had felt like a journey to a lost world, had moved me deeply.
    — Gisela Williams, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2017
  • First introduced in 1967, as a part of a futuristic bride ensemble, the hat looked both like something out of a nunnery and a science fiction movie.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 4 May 2018
  • In Benedetta, nunnery is shown as a means to emancipation, rather than oppression, for the main character.
    — ELLE, 3 June 2022
  • The coal merchant Bill Furlong discovers during a Christmas-week delivery that a young woman has been shut in a nunnery’s coal shed overnight.
    — Joanna Biggs, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
  • One of very few monarchs to have earned madness as a title, the 16th-century Spanish Queen Juana la Loca, was dealt with by being forcibly confined to a nunnery.
    — chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2017

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