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

She wanted to become a nun and begged her uncle to let her join Drukpa nunnery, but he refused.

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