How to Use nun in a Sentence

nun

noun
  • Floy Agnes Lee: The nuns would come from the east and to teach and.
    Monica Lopez, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • The nun has witnessed a lot of death and pain in Haiti.
    Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Two rows of schoolgirls are led by a nun through the yard.
    Christina Newland, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • Mead was not the first singing nun with a top 10 Billboard hit.
    al, 28 Jan. 2022
  • At the school, one of the nuns shoves her face into a bowl of gray gruel.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc was a reference for the nun.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The nun used her rod to tap the underside of any arms that began to sag.
    Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In 2021, five priests and two nuns were kidnapped from a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
    Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t expect Sweeney to be method dressing as a nun for this tour though.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
  • On top of their day jobs, the two nuns adopted four children and fostered at least 70 more.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Hudson asked the audience while striking a pose as the singing nun.
    People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Though the last of the nuns left in 1912, there remains a sense of cloistered, meditative peace.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
  • The death of her father led Catherine Coldstream to become a nun.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That means there are four episodes—and four weeks of Betty Gilpin's nun battling evil A.I.—remaining until the end of the first season.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Long gone are the days when nuns ran many local hospitals.
    Samantha Liss, Fortune Well, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Today there is a plaque thanking the nuns who risked their lives to hide Annette and Jeanne, two Jewish girls, from the Nazis.
    Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The nuns had strong feelings about Sister Aloysius, played by Amy Ryan.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
  • One wore a shower curtain as part of a makeshift nun’s habit and held a rubber chicken.
    Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
  • In episode 2, Teonna is on the cafeteria table and the nuns are swarming her.
    Kate Nelson, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Two other nuns tried to hold down a protester, who shook loose.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • There was a fear Protestant girls would be kidnapped, forced to become Catholic nuns and held against their will, Davies said.
    Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • This city is the birthplace of marzipan, invented by nuns as early as the 1500s.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The nuns could now ride bikes around the grounds of the monastery during their outside time, the mother superior told him.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Bernard must have been taken aback by this letter from an unknown nun.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The idea of Powell playing tough guys makes about as much sense as would Lady Gaga playing nuns.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Now those nuns refused to leave — vowing to keep the wildfire at bay with prayer and water buckets.
    Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • In another, a nun, her white habit matching the clouds in the sky, marches up a path to a church on the slopes of Mt Kilanmanjaro.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The nuns use it to banish Valak back to hell, thereby freeing Maurice from her clutches and saving the day.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • West, who attended Catholic school as a child, was captivated by the nuns and their habits.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
  • When six beloved nuns are brutally murdered at the local convent, the town grieves.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023

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