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

And I myself remembered the so-called "Nun study," which claimed that sentence complexity in writing could be used as a predictor of Alzheimer's disease later in life (in essence, nuns who wrote simple sentences as novices were more likely to be Alzheimer's victims in old age; those writing more complex sentences were less likely to contract it).
Also, according to the NYT , the nun who identified herself as the temple treasurer said that when she oversaw the collection from nuns of checks made out to the "DNC" totaling $55,000, she didn't know what "DNC" stood for.
TR: "Do you believe that priests and nuns and rabbis and ministers [in Minnesota] could be considered 'weak-minded people?' "
You’ll also see the first of La Rambla’s celebrated mimes, or “human statues,” portraying Christopher Columbus, priests, bearded nuns, and Roman soldiers, among many other guises.
It is not, in fact, a work of savage (or even mild) anti-clericalism, in the tradition of the Marquis de Sade (whose every third scene involves priests and nuns performing unspeakable acts) or the films of Luis Buñuel (most famously Viridiana , with its infamous parody of the Last Supper tableau).