Example Sentences

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Sisterhoods on campus ought to be exactly that – groups dedicated to supporting fellow university women and developing skills, confidence and leadership.

From US News • Aug. 18, 2015

The elder one has tried two or three Sisterhoods, and being dissatisfied with all the rules, I fancy she has some notion of trying to set up one on her own account at Mr. Flight’s. 

From Modern Broods by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Other benevolent organisations which seem to me admirable, are the Sisterhoods founded twenty years ago by the Rabbi Gottheil.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

Members of the Sisterhoods do work in schools, hospitals, and among the wretched, the poor and neglected.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James

Sisterhoods, 47, 150, 157, 212, 215, 216, 248.

From Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Robinson, Jane M. Bancroft (Jane Marie Bancroft)