Example Sentences

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They have blazed a path of progress in recent decades for Buddhist women — from education through advanced degrees and the creation of nunneries to seeking full ordination.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2021

A group of crows is a murder; pandas, an embarrassment; nuns, a superfluity — a term that dates to the Middle Ages, when nunneries were overcrowded, lice-ridden and destitute.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021

Alison Brie: Yes, and we read books on nuns and nunneries and medieval times to prepare for this film.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2017

“Cultural assimilation is bound to happen, but we have a Tibetan monastery, schools, nunneries and settlements,” said the elected settlement officer of Dharamsala’s Tibetan Settlement Office.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2014

The nunneries around Florence are filled with girls without dowries.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day