How to Use priory in a Sentence

priory

noun

• At the foot of the cathedral, Hotellerie Saint Yves offers spic-and-span rooms on the site of an old priory (budget, www.maison-st-yves.com).
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 23 May 2017
• Malcolm led the way around the back of the priory and came to the side where the window of Lyra’s nursery would be, if it hadn’t been hidden by the new shutters.
  — Philip Pullman, Slate Magazine, 26 May 2017
• Bessie was sent away to a priory in Essex to give birth, an event so secret no one is even certain of the boy’s real birth date.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• The museum is based in a medieval priory founded by the Cluniac order of monks in the 13th century.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• The museum is based in a medieval priory founded by the Cluniac order of monks in the 13th century.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• Serving customers and doing odd jobs for the nuns at the priory across the road has put Malcolm in a special position to notice growing disquiet in the adult world.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
• In between helping out at his dad’s pub and riding the city’s canals in the beloved canoe that gives the book its title, Malcolm is introduced to a baby, Lyra, who is being looked after by an order of nuns at a nearby priory.
  — Dan Stewart, Time, 19 Oct. 2017
• But the process has been continually delayed, as Trump and congressional Republicans have struggled to push through other top priories such as health care and tax reform.
  — Wade Payson-Denney, CNN, 17 May 2017

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