Example sentences for: abbey

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

  • In 1544 the English invaded, set fire to the palace, and sacked the abbey.

  • Abbey, D.E.

  • A British mining concern has discovered that 1.5 million tons of coal lie buried beneath Newstead Abbey, the family estate of Lord Byron.

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

  • 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.


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