How to Use monastery in a Sentence

monastery

noun

• Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden.
• The business of the monastery was the crafting of icons.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Bruni said that the pontiff then stayed at the monastery for a time of prayer.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2023
• The monastery is a place with a deep connection to the past.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
• The monks raised their hoods and made their way back into the monastery.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
• His body was returned to the monastery, where we was buried March 16.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• Both went to the same place: the old Trappist monastery in the Ogden Valley.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• The Airport 77s moped through the summer, each in our own monastery.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• Alyosha, the youngest, has been living in a local monastery.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The bodies were seen lined up and slumped against the monastery’s walls with pools of blood on the ground below.
  — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• The fires from the monasteries were rumored to have burned for weeks.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Even the abbot — the head of the monastery, who had served as a monk for 10 years — was found to be using drugs.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The monastery’s longtime guard had set it on fire, even though the abbot had asked him not to.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• An enchained monk is said to haunt the rear terrace, where a monastery once stood.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• Sanchez, who has worked at the monastery for 20 years, said the past few months have been unsettling.
  — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• It’s the home of Straub Brewery and a Benedictine monastery.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 9 Mar. 2022
• No one has uttered a word since the monastery was founded 130 years ago.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Brother Felix came to Huntsville in 1947 and was one of the founding members of the monastery.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• On June 27, a military jet struck a monastery in the village of Nyaung Kone.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Take a break from it all by heading to a monastery or RVing for three years?
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
• The confessors in his monastery were so sick of him coming again and again.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• The vibes at the monastery are contemplative, but not sad, Pham said.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Hsi Lai Temple is a monastery in the hills of Hacienda Heights.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• The monastery is also home to relics of saints dating back to the 10th century.
  — CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• There is one at Twitter who takes action while Dorsey mans the monastery.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The school, located in a monastery, was set up in secret after the coup.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• On Sunday, Benedict’s body lay on a burgundy-colored bier in the chapel of the monastery.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• Pierre’s brief visit to a monastery, touching a spiritual stone, then spotting Mont Saint-Michel, lends Catholic sensitivity to the quest.
  — Armond White, National Review, 1 Nov. 2024
• Through the lens of a sister documenting her brother’s life, A Wen – once a gangster and businessman in Barcelona – faces the pressures of his dual existence and eventually returns to a monastery in China.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025