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Example sentences for: monastery

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

The first is the former Cistercian monastery Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça.
The church at its heart — the Pantánassa — is thought to be part of a large monastery complex that sat here before the Ottoman invasion.
This he called Guadeloupe after a monastery in Spain.
West of Lanzhou are the magnificent Thousand Buddha Temple and Caves (Binglingsi Shiku), with ancient frescoes and hundreds of statues, and, at Xiahe, the Labrang Monastery (Labolengsi), one of the largest and most active lamaseries outside of Tibet.
The connection is also mentioned in other works, such as Everyman's Encyclopaedia (1978): Its name is said to be detived from Botolph's Town, St. Botolph having founded a monastery here in 654.