nunnery

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Recent Examples of nunnery The ruins of the Iona nunnery were visible from one window of the hall. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 She was then remanded in a nunnery, given a derisory sentence — less than two years in jail — before being released with a presidential pardon. Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024 Sarah Snook at Critics Choice: C- Is this the uniform of a strict headmistress of a nunnery? Alex Badia, WWD, 13 Sep. 2024 The entrepreneur is told to either get thee to a nunnery (with apologies to Hamlet) or get thee to a mentor. Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nunnery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nunnery
Noun
  • After six years, the sisters were packing up to return to living full-time at their convent in nearby Dereham.
    Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
  • But there was a catch: Sister Monica Clare had to pay off $150,000 of debt in order to join a convent.
    Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Vatican has denied that Prevost permitted Ray to live at the monastery.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • In 2015, David and his wife made Texas their primary residence after retiring from their jobs at a Buddhist monastery in Woodstock, N.Y., where David was executive director for three years.
    Serge F. Kovaleski, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The latter was particularly restorative, as was the Negroni No. 2 at Le Bar, in the cloister, which adds beets and strawberries to the classic recipe.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
  • When the breeze flows through the cloisters, the kites float, showing off their gravity-defying nature.
    Diana Budds, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, he’s injected his flair into Venetian jewels like Abbazia San Gregorio, a former Benedictine abbey and the home of Diane von Furstenburg in Palazzo Brandolini-Giustinian.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
  • Using the abbey as an observation post with gun emplacements near its foundation and in the surrounding cliffs, the Germans command the narrow mountain passes of Route 6—the road to Rome.
    Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025

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