How to Use monastery in a Sentence

monastery

noun

• Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden.
• The business of the monastery was the crafting of icons.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Bruni said that the pontiff then stayed at the monastery for a time of prayer.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Both went to the same place: the old Trappist monastery in the Ogden Valley.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Alyosha, the youngest, has been living in a local monastery.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The bodies were seen lined up and slumped against the monastery’s walls with pools of blood on the ground below.
  — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• The fires from the monasteries were rumored to have burned for weeks.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Even the abbot — the head of the monastery, who had served as a monk for 10 years — was found to be using drugs.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• An enchained monk is said to haunt the rear terrace, where a monastery once stood.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• On June 27, a military jet struck a monastery in the village of Nyaung Kone.
  — Weiyi Cai, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Hsi Lai Temple is a monastery in the hills of Hacienda Heights.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• The school, located in a monastery, was set up in secret after the coup.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• On Sunday, Benedict’s body lay on a burgundy-colored bier in the chapel of the monastery.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• Our first stop was a fertility shrine near the monastery.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The nursing home is in a 140-year-old monastery next to a chapel surrounded by new apartments.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• Metropolitan Pavlo, the head of the Lavra monastery, has denied the charges.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• One of his story paintings is about a joyful monk who sneaks out of the monastery at night to dance with Cuban Cha Cha girls.
  — Beth Thames | [e-mail], al, 16 Nov. 2022
• The monastery, painted a bright white with a cheerful red trim, was dank and nearly pitch-black inside.
  — Teddy Minford, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
• This school was once a monastery, its chapel boarded up since being hit by a WW2 bomb that claimed the life of the stern headmistress’ (Suzanne Bertish) son.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• The nuns could now ride bikes around the grounds of the monastery during their outside time, the mother superior told him.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• With a chorus that brings to mind a monastery choir and a beat made up of robotic buzzes and clangs, the song sounds not quite like anything else on the Billboard Hot 100.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2023
• Iconic Catholic women brought their messages to the former Huntsville monastery and the Beehive State.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
• Though their religious order has been around since the Middle Ages, the monastery is about to be axed by the Archdiocese.
  — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• The winery takes its name from a Carthusian monastery dating to the late 16th century, where monks lived a vow of silence.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• Russian forces on the north side of the river fired into the hills on the south, occasionally striking the monastery grounds.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• At the end of the road was our destination: a monastery hidden behind tall wooden doors, or rather, what used to be a monastery.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• But after four years cooped up in a monastery, Mary runs away and heads straight for (figurative) sin city.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2023
• The initial surveys of the area were intended to identify a church belonging to the monastery that was built in 1393.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024