Examples of 'nunnery' in a sentence

Meaning of "nunnery"

nunnery (noun): A residence or community for nuns, typically associated with a religious order or convent. Nunneries provide a dedicated space for women who have taken vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience to live and practice their faith
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  • A place of residence for nuns; a convent.
  • A brothel.
  • A surname.

How to use "nunnery" in a sentence

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In a nunnery with strong rules this is impossible.
Lily returned to the nunnery to make a confession.
You run along back to the nunnery.
Every nunnery has its own rules.
My father banished me to a nunnery across the sea.
The nunnery across the sea.
As pretty a maid as ever entered the nunnery.
I did not go into a nunnery after our divorce.
This could be the dormitory of the nunnery.
They sent her to a nunnery and he was castrated.
I mean it was either that or join a nunnery.
A nun never enters a nunnery to be a mean woman.
The nunnery burned because of you.
Committed to the same nunnery as her mother.
A nunnery exists behind the convent.

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Around this time a nunnery was also established.
He sticks out like a tart in a nunnery.
There is a very famous nunnery behind that door.
I told you it was no place to put a nunnery.
His successor ordered the nunnery to be built as a penalty.
And find peace within the walls of a nunnery.
This is a nunnery and temple for the pure.
He was standing in front of the nunnery ready to go home.
I have given a great deal of thought to claude in a nunnery.
We have a whole nunnery over there.
And she wanted to go to the nunnery.
Nothing of the nunnery remains now.
There was a priest who was going to visit a nunnery.
The abbess at a nunnery and is raised.
No one would even think of looking for us in a nunnery.
Misao is an orphan living in a nunnery with kindly women.
Elena was worried you were headed back to the nunnery.
The church of the nunnery was also used as a parish church.
When she came back from the nunnery.
There is a nunnery on the mountain.
Elsa bore a child at the nunnery.
It was stolen from a nunnery in my parish eight days ago.
Be different if he would set fire to a nunnery.
We are leaving for the nunnery before the sun sets.
She used to come to the nunnery.
The nunnery burned.
Zis could be ze dormitory of the nunnery.
You may find a nunnery but you will never be free of me.
Just because i am not hiding in a nunnery.
The name refers to a benedictine nunnery located here in earlier times.
Then she founded there a nunnery.
Godstow nunnery established.
Braced herself for a longer stay at the nunnery.
The monastery is a nunnery nowadays.
This is considered as the main sanctum of the nunnery.

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