How to Use convent in a Sentence

convent

noun

• By the time Thomas was born, his mother had left the convent.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• Of course, the parents had to pay less to a convent than to a bridegroom.
  — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
• Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Join a nunnery, there'll always be a place for you in the convent.
  — Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• One night, the nuns were concerned when a car approached the convent at 3 a.m.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Over time, the school moved buildings and later added a convent in 1890.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
• The Santa Clara was built as a convent in the 17th century.
  — Anika Fajardo, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• Secrets from the convent's past are dredged up, along with a few spirits.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
• There’s the one about the young woman who fell in love with a farmer boy before her parents sent her to the convent.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
• What happens when a small convent of nuns needs to raise funds quickly?
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 July 2022
• There’s a pivotal scene in which a sister has been instructed by the convent’s priest not to open the gates to strangers.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• One house was the school, while the other was a convent and dormitory.
  — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
• The aristocrat Blanche de la Force had hoped the convent would serve as a sanctuary.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2022
• The convent was built by the monks on a patch of land donated to them by local aristocrats, and carved out of a rocky hill flank.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
• The Franciscan convent has been around since 1851, its nuns buried in the cemetery nearby.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2022
• Chilperic’s first wife had been exiled many years before, parked in a convent in Rouen.
  — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• When six beloved nuns are brutally murdered at the local convent, the town grieves.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
• Those kind of circles can be seen elsewhere in the convent, filled with Christian imagery.
  — Fernanda Pesce, ajc, 7 Oct. 2022
• The look shifts again when Cyrano, who has returned from battle, meets Roxanne in a convent.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2022
• Chana shared how Sabine and Annette, along with other young women hiding in the convent, stayed in touch for years after the war.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
• Or the moment when the entire convent rips their habits open in a hysterical mass-flash.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
• The nuns kept the work of art anonymous until a 1979 earthquake destroyed the convent’s historic frescoes.
  — Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
• Your novel features a crisis of authority about whether the convent should build a wall to keep out the plague.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
• Researchers predict that the number of nuns living in the convent varied.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
• The property changed hands in 1871 and later became a convent.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• Wild In this sketch set in a convent, Benito plays a nun named Sister Theresa.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2023
• Others were wives in loveless marriages or nuns whose parents had stowed them in a convent.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The film follows Alma who is about to take her vows as a nun in a Catholic convent, when her estranged brother Erik arrives.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Sep. 2022
• Their newest creative vision is a project filled with twists, blood and a surprising amount of horniness for a movie set at an Italian convent.
  — William Earl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
• Herrera joined the convent in 1956 after graduating high school.
  — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024