How to Use abbess in a Sentence

abbess

noun

• That comes from a book on Hildegard of Bingen, who was an abbess in a monastery in Germany in the eleven-hundreds.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• In 1151, Richardis was appointed the abbess of a convent far to the north, near Bremen, where her brother happened to be the archbishop.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Following Offa’s death in 796, Cynethryth joined a religious order and became abbess of the monastery.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2021
• Behind Convent Walls, his ninth film and one of the breezier entries in his filmography, checks off all these boxes with a light-on-plot chronicle of naughty nuns and their abbess’s futile efforts to wrangle them.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• Hildegard was a Catholic abbess of the Benedictine Order.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
• When the abbess died in 866, she was buried in the abbey church.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• Groff imagined the poet Marie de France as a teenager forced to venture into the dark woods to serve as the abbess.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• That makes the abbess a likely candidate for the author of the inscription and marginal doodles.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023