Example sentences for: nun

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

  • The farmyard cock is so called for its clucks, as illustrated by Chaucer in The Nun's Priest's Tale, in which Chanticleer cryde anon, cok, cok.

  • Does a sea captain think “port,” or, rather, “ port --four letters--same as left ”? When he enters a harbor, does he know the red nun buoys mark the right side of the channel, or must the alliterative “Red right returning” come to mind first?

  • (Less, apparently, is more, even for a soap opera character who's been married to virtually everyone on the show and once impersonated a nun.)

  • An accompanying time line illustrates women's progress, beginning with a 12 th -century German nun and ending with Purdue University's 1999 women's basketball team.

  • La Stampa of Turin ran an article praising the pope's efforts to reconcile the Catholic Church and Jews, despite the recent controversy over the canonization of the Jewish-born Catholic nun Edith Stein, who died at Auschwitz.


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