mother superior
Example Sentences
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Emily Watson plays the manipulative mother superior who slips Bill an envelope of cash to buy his complicity.
From Los Angeles Times
She’s barely there, making a couple of brief appearances as the nuns’ mother superior back in Calcutta, but she’s as tough and vivid as ever.
From New York Times
About three miles from downtown Galveston, 93 children lived at St. Mary’s Orphanage with 10 nuns, including Sister M. Camillus Tracy, the mother superior.
From Washington Post
The mother superior and several nuns have left and armed guards are patrolling the site.
From BBC
One convent said she had even pretended to be a mother superior – the head of a female religious community.
From The Guardian
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