Example sentences for: abbey

How can you use “abbey” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.

  • At St-Benoît-du-Lac, look for the graceful Neo-Gothic grey-stone silhouette of the Benedictine abbey, much appreciated for the monks’ Gregorian chant.

  • When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.

  • Here you’ll find the ruined Abbey of St. Colm, founded in the 12th century and named for St. Columba, who had brought Christianity to western Scotland 600 years earlier.

  • The new Irish Music Hall of Fame (IMHF), 57 Middle Abbey Street, presents concerts and other events, along with its exhibits and audio-visual tour through the history of Irish pop music.


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