Example sentences for: abbey

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

  • Here you will find the tomb of King András (Andrew) I who, in 1055, founded the Benedictine Abbey that once stood on this site.

  • It cannot be denied that Abingdon arose by an abbey, for example, or that Maidstone is on the Medway.

  • Abbey suggested we offer every 15-year-old female in the United States a new Mustang convertible in exchange for sterilization.

  • Canongate derived its name from an edict by David I (1124–1157), founder of the Abbey of Holyrood, who granted a right to raise a gate between the abbey and the Royal “burgh” of Edinburgh.

  • The easternmost stretch of the Royal Mile — only 50 m- (55 yards-) long — is called Abbey Strand.


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