Example sentences for: nuns

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

  • 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.

  • Indeed, so sacred are the Ise shrines that, despite the relatively peaceful coexistence of Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, Buddhist monks and nuns were banned from entering the precincts prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

  • 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).

  • Sixth-century stone tablets grace Wenmiao, Harbin’s temple to Confucius, while Jilesi, the Temple of Bliss (the largest in the province) hosts an active community of monks and nuns and opens onto a large, lively street market.


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