Example Sentences

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Sisterhoods on campus ought to be exactly that – groups dedicated to supporting fellow university women and developing skills, confidence and leadership.

From US News • Aug. 18, 2015

Other benevolent organisations which seem to me admirable, are the Sisterhoods founded twenty years ago by the Rabbi Gottheil.

From Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso by Lombroso, Gina

Sisterhoods, 47, 150, 157, 212, 215, 216, 248.

From Deaconesses in Europe and their Lessons for America by Robinson, Jane M. Bancroft (Jane Marie Bancroft)

Our teaching Sisterhoods in this country have nobly lifted themselves up to the occasion demanded, and we may well be proud of our Catholic colleges for women.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

Members of the Sisterhoods do work in schools, hospitals, and among the wretched, the poor and neglected.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James