nunnery
Example Sentences
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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
She eventually made her way to the nunnery and never returned.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Working his family mercilessly, he causes his Chinese-born wife to retreat to a Buddhist nunnery.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022
“Then they will tear me to pieces there! My honor sullied, I will be dismissed from court and packed off to a nunnery somewhere, never to marry!”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Vocabulary lists containing nunnery
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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