Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
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
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
-
The settings of her novels certainly vary widely, taking place everywhere from a sleepy convent in medieval England to eighteenth-century Andalusia to Paris during the revolutions of 1848.—
B. Pietras
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
-
The Ritual, now in theaters, purports to be based on the true story of Schmidt's exorcism, which took place at a secluded convent just north of Earling, Iowa, in late 1928.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
6 June 2025
Noun
-
The monastery coincidentally served as a French abbey’s outpost amid increasing tensions between France and England in the years leading up to the Hundred Years’ War.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
6 June 2025
-
The remains of the monastery were found in a field in Derome, in southwest Sweden.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
-
With stone walls, vaulted ceilings, and Renaissance cloister, Parador is a prime example of Gothic architecture.—
Carlsen Jes,
Travel + Leisure,
1 June 2025
-
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
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
Cite this Entry
“Nunnery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nunnery. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share