nun
Example Sentences
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And when I found out she was gonna be in the episode where she plays a nun, a murderous nun, I just thought, “I’m not gonna be able to contain myself.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
She won the 1996 Best Actress Oscar for "Dead Man Walking", where she played a nun who supports a man sentenced to death.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
One of my grandfather’s most repeated stories was about a nun who gave him a new school uniform because the other kids were making fun of how small and worn his old one was.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026
It’s a genuine calamity—there are deaths, as well as displacement of babies and the ill, including one nun recently diagnosed with tuberculosis but who had no choice but to continue caring for the kids.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Now, she was learning English in a Catholic classroom, where no nun had ever mentioned the words she was needing.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing nun
World Religions
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Medieval Europe - Introductory
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