Example sentences for: nun

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

  • An article questions the canonization of Edith Stein, a Jew-turned-Catholic nun who perished in the Holocaust.

  • (Two of the children died of pneumonia soon after these inexplicable events; the third, Lucia, now in her 90s, has been a cloistered Carmelite nun in Coimbra since 1929 and makes very few public appearances.)

  • A sidebar profiles potential saint Katharine Drexel, a nun who gave her vast fortune to charity while ministering to poor blacks and Native Americans in Louisiana.

  • The DNC gave up $5,000 of that money after a Buddhist nun said someone gave her $5,000 cash and asked her to write a $5,000 check to the party.

  • Tastes change of course, in wines as well as scandals, and though Old Monk is gone from the shelves, today's courts seem not to be offended by the brand of wine known as Blue Nun .


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