reverend mother
Example Sentences
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Although they dress like nuns styled by Jean Paul Gaultier and hold titles like Reverend Mother, they adhere to a regimen of martial arts training and learn how to be living lie detectors.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024
As in the book, Lady Jessica is forced to become the Fremen’s Reverend Mother by drinking “the water of life” — a poisonous liquid taken from sandworms that downloads the memory of all her ancestors.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024
The “Reverend Mother” mysteries are set in the 1920s, against the backdrop of Ireland’s Civil War, with Reverend Mother Aquinas using her knowledge of every level of Cork’s intricate social hierarchy to solve murders.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2022
The place was cruel and joyless, according to Pamela, and she remembers that when the Reverend Mother asked who wanted to go to Australia, every girl in the home put their hand up.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2015
Quiet nuns clustered quietly around their Reverend Mother, who never read their letters.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
