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
• Both went to the same place: the old Trappist monastery in the Ogden Valley.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Another monastery stuffed to the gills with great art and great Italians.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2021
• Dozens of tents were spread out across the monastery, but those without tents braved the night sleeping on pews inside the church.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• Before the race started, the swimmers gathered on the riverbank across from the monastery.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• Our first stop was a fertility shrine near the monastery.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The nursing home is in a 140-year-old monastery next to a chapel surrounded by new apartments.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Metropolitan Pavlo, the head of the Lavra monastery, has denied the charges.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• Around 70 people also stayed in the monastery, at a school or with local residents, according to those who remained and spoke to NBC News.
  — Zoya Awky, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• After it was damaged, the monastery was ultimately abandoned in the early 7th century CE.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024