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.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Join a nunnery, there'll always be a place for you in the convent.
  — Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• Joina nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
  — Colleen Kratofil, PEOPLE.com, 16 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
• 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
• She was dispatched to a nunnery upon the death of her husband, Emperor Taizong and, like Liu, hauled herself back to glory through guile and determination.
  — Charlie Campbell / Beijing, Time, 12 June 2017
• Buddhist nuns giving prayers to express their gratitude before eating at a nunnery in Sagaing, Myanmar.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• The result is a remarkably thorough portrait of daily life in a nunnery, but one that’s also a universal story about female desire.
  — Anna Silman, The Cut, 30 Oct. 2017
• The nunnery looked oddly like a women’s madrassa in Qom, the country’s religious centre, and the audience seemed thrilled by a female rebel challenging the stifling atmosphere.
  — The Economist, 28 Jan. 2020
• This one picks up that vaguely abolitionist thinking by having Fiona serve out her time via community service at a nunnery.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2021
• That money will help pay for the renovation of the Kuhlman Building, which once served as a nunnery, a nursing school and dormitory, and administrative offices for the hospital.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2017
• The monastery is a former motel with a lobby in the shape of a wigwam, where Bran’s mother meditates and vacuums and rapidly dies of ovarian cancer, which means Bran never gets to ask whether the call of the nunnery was worth abandoning a daughter.
  — New York Times, 17 May 2022
• Investigations of the nunnery yielded no evidence of the kind of behavior Monk had recounted.
  — David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024