nunnery

[ UK /nˈʌnəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈnənɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the convent of a community of nuns
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How To Use nunnery In A Sentence

  • You have to go to a desert, or to a monastery, a nunnery or an abbey.
  • An elderly, wrapped in a cow's hide, appears and, laughing, to the nunnery high above us.
  • The nunnery flourished for more than a century, when, in the time of Penda, who was the reactionary of heathendom, it fell into decay. The Lair of the White Worm
  • I bimbled past the ruined nunnery.
  • What do you want me to do, dress in black and live in a nunnery?
  • But when the bishop came to visit a nunnery, that is precisely what happened. Medieval People
  • While Suor Marie Celeste's father defended the book he wrote, outlining his ideas on a heliocentric universe before the Inquisition, his daughter's letters tell him to wrap up warm and request money to help keep the nunnery running.
  • It was formerly a nunnery, but in 1229 the nuns departed and the almswomen took their place. Vanishing England
  • Walking out of the nunnery was Sister Elizabeth, dressed in full habit, using a wooden cane to get down the sidewalk easier.
  • Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice. Celibates
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