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

Her father was out of the picture and her mother, a Parisian courtesan, had shuttled her daughter around France — to a boarding school, a countryside nursery, a nunnery.

From New York Times ● May 11, 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

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

“Cultural assimilation is bound to happen, but we have a Tibetan monastery, schools, nunneries and settlements,” said the elected settlement officer of Dharamsala’s Tibetan Settlement Office.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2014

Time here is measured by bells, as once in nunneries.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood