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Recent Examples of nunneryShe 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 Sweeney plays Cecilia, an American nun who transfers to Italy and is forced to face a lot of dark secrets hidden in the walls of the gorgeous nunnery.—William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nunnery
The wide open space of the glorious Sistine Chapel, wonderful ornate cloisters and marble staircases needed a flip side to them.
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Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
Christian intellectuals increasingly accepted input from classical and contemporary non-Christian sources, particularly in emerging urban schools, which were beginning to replace monastic cloisters as centers of learning in Europe.
The TikTok post then pivots to Kate's curtsy to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip during her wedding to Prince William in April 2011, again at the abbey followed by Kate and Meghan curtsying to the queen at Sandringham on Christmas Day in 2018.
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Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Andre sourced a 330-year-old stone fireplace from France, which was originally from an abbey that was destroyed during the war.
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