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.
• Smith sits with monks in a monastery, cross-legged on the ground.
  — Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
• There were queues of refugees queuing for food in a monastery.
  — National Geographic, 28 July 2020
• Boyle became, for many, the beloved face of the monastery.
  — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
• The monks raised their hoods and made their way back into the monastery.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
• Bruni said that the pontiff then stayed at the monastery for a time of prayer.
  — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2023
• Monks in black robes and rope belts wandered the grounds of an on-site monastery.
  — Albert Stumm, The Seattle Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Burke would come up with plans to rebuild the monastery’s chapter house.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
• An enchained monk is said to haunt the rear terrace, where a monastery once stood.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• The monastery’s longtime guard had set it on fire, even though the abbot had asked him not to.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• In some ways, though, modern life has reached the monastery; many of the monks have smartphones.
  — Marina Harss, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• The fires from the monasteries were rumored to have burned for weeks.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The confessors in his monastery were so sick of him coming again and again.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Furba spins the prayer wheels surrounding the base of the monastery.
  — Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
• Chopin composed roughly half of the preludes in the monastery.
  — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
• His body was returned to the monastery, where we was buried March 16.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• The monastery was always so welcoming and open.
  — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
• 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
• No one has uttered a word since the monastery was founded 130 years ago.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• The nearest shelter is a remote monastery.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
• Near the monastery someone shouting through a bullhorn.
  — Chen Yuhong, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
• The school, located in a monastery, was set up in secret after the coup.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• There is one at Twitter who takes action while Dorsey mans the monastery.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• The monks vacated the property this past week, and the monastery was closed.
  — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
• Take a break from it all by heading to a monastery or RVing for three years?
  — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
• The vibes at the monastery are contemplative, but not sad, Pham said.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Sanchez, who has worked at the monastery for 20 years, said the past few months have been unsettling.
  — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• The Airport 77s moped through the summer, each in our own monastery.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2020
• Save the monastery, or the life of one individual monk.
  — Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026