nunnery

Example Sentences

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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

She later founded a nunnery in India focused on giving women in Tibetan Buddhism some of the opportunities reserved for monks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2024

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

And on Port Meadow at the full moon there’s a werewolf that comes out from the old nunnery at Godstow.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman