nunnery

Meanwhile Philippa, knowing that “visionaries are ungovernable,” fears that Barton’s presence in her nunnery portends catastrophe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Get me to a nunnery, but I’m weary of presenting filmland’s biggest honor to the kind of movie people rarely want to watch twice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Every day, the nunnery receives at least a dozen inquiries about joining the order from places as far as Mexico, Ireland, Germany and the United States.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

Last year’s most unlikely bestseller was “Matrix,” a novel by Lauren Groff about an obscure medieval poet named Marie de France and a 12th-century nunnery.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2022

My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

They have blazed a path of progress in recent decades for Buddhist women — from education through advanced degrees and the creation of nunneries to seeking full ordination.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

In places where touch is expressly forbidden – schools, nunneries, consulting rooms – any brushing of skin speaks volumes.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2020

Alison Brie: Yes, and we read books on nuns and nunneries and medieval times to prepare for this film.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2017

“They en’t CCD. They’re called summing like the Security of the Holy Spirit, summing like that. They guard religious places—seminaries, nunneries, schools, that sort of place. They prob’ly come from Wallingford, from the priory there.”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman