How to Use nun in a Sentence

nun

noun

• Floy Agnes Lee: The nuns would come from the east and to teach and.
  — Monica Lopez, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
• The nun has witnessed a lot of death and pain in Haiti.
  — Adriana Zehbrauskas, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Two rows of schoolgirls are led by a nun through the yard.
  — Christina Newland, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
• Mead was not the first singing nun with a top 10 Billboard hit.
  — al, 28 Jan. 2022
• At the school, one of the nuns shoves her face into a bowl of gray gruel.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The Passion of Joan of Arc was a reference for the nun.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• The nun used her rod to tap the underside of any arms that began to sag.
  — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
• In 2021, five priests and two nuns were kidnapped from a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Don’t expect Sweeney to be method dressing as a nun for this tour though.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
• On top of their day jobs, the two nuns adopted four children and fostered at least 70 more.
  — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Hudson asked the audience while striking a pose as the singing nun.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• Though the last of the nuns left in 1912, there remains a sense of cloistered, meditative peace.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• The death of her father led Catherine Coldstream to become a nun.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
• That means there are four episodes—and four weeks of Betty Gilpin's nun battling evil A.I.—remaining until the end of the first season.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
• Long gone are the days when nuns ran many local hospitals.
  — Samantha Liss, Fortune Well, 6 Dec. 2023
• Today there is a plaque thanking the nuns who risked their lives to hide Annette and Jeanne, two Jewish girls, from the Nazis.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2023
• The nuns had strong feelings about Sister Aloysius, played by Amy Ryan.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024
• One wore a shower curtain as part of a makeshift nun’s habit and held a rubber chicken.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• In episode 2, Teonna is on the cafeteria table and the nuns are swarming her.
  — Kate Nelson, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
• Two other nuns tried to hold down a protester, who shook loose.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
• There was a fear Protestant girls would be kidnapped, forced to become Catholic nuns and held against their will, Davies said.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023
• This city is the birthplace of marzipan, invented by nuns as early as the 1500s.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• The nuns could now ride bikes around the grounds of the monastery during their outside time, the mother superior told him.
  — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2022
• Bernard must have been taken aback by this letter from an unknown nun.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The idea of Powell playing tough guys makes about as much sense as would Lady Gaga playing nuns.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• Now those nuns refused to leave — vowing to keep the wildfire at bay with prayer and water buckets.
  — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• In another, a nun, her white habit matching the clouds in the sky, marches up a path to a church on the slopes of Mt Kilanmanjaro.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The nuns use it to banish Valak back to hell, thereby freeing Maurice from her clutches and saving the day.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• West, who attended Catholic school as a child, was captivated by the nuns and their habits.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2024
• Six Catholic nuns and others were kidnapped in Haiti in January.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024