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Example sentences for: convent

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The convent took 13 years to build and employed more than 50,000 people at one time.
High above the town, the ruins of a 17th-century convent, Nossa Senhora do Desterro, loom like a ghostly gray eminence.
The pasture for the convent’s cattle is now the quiet, spacious Parc de l’Esplanade, the perfect place to rest your tired sightseeing feet.
In modest Portugal, the dimensions and extravagance of the convent and palace of Mafra, 40 km (25 miles) to the northwest of Lisbon, are quite staggering.
The former convent houses an interesting regional museum with a good archaeological and painting collection.