nun

Example Sentences

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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

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

They slept 20 to a room, with a nun at one end, and the door locked.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

Still, her father enrolled her in an elite Catholic school where she was nurtured by Mother Greenough, a nun with a doctorate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

But even if that was the case, Dicey knew her cousin would rather have been a nun.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt