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How to use convent in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun, verb

Convent means a religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows. Example: “The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.”

Examples of convent by meaning

nounA religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.

  • It's enough to drive a girl into a convent!1972, Jay Presson Allen, Cabaret, spoken by Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli)

More sentences with convent

  • The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.From the entry abbess
  • Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.From the entry sister
  • At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen.From the entry sister
  • 'See you next Tuesday.' I learnt that at my convent school (My mother was Catholic).2006, Nick Hemsley, Clock, page 96. From the entry see you next Tuesday
  • A publishing house, another convent, and a collection of orphanages for boys and girls were located here.2004, Eric N Danielson, Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta, volume 1, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 136. From the entry Zikawei
  • At the convent he is known as "Andrew." This is Shin's baptismal name.2000, U.S. Catholic Historian. From the entry christian name
  • Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.2000, Laurence L. Bongie, Sade: A Biographical Essay, page 212. From the entry self-exile
  • Reverend Ipe went to Madras and withdrew his daughter from the convent.1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 1, in The God of Small Things, Thorndike, Maine: G.K. Hall, page 42. From the entry reconvert
  • There were many reasons why women might choose a reclusery over a convent.1996, Jo Ann McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia, page 237. From the entry reclusery
  • I do not think that this story is intended as a critique of brothellike convents.1996, Hill Gates, China's Motor: A Thousand Years of Petty Capitalism, page 194. From the entry brothellike
  • I think maybe that's why they gave me the old heave-ho from the convent.1985, William M. Hoffman, As Is, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., published 1999, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry give someone the old heave-ho
  • They said she was a grande duchesse placed incog in the convent for a unique experience.1910, Lucy de Grasse Martin, “Magnificent Olga”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume LXXX, New York, N.Y.: The Century…. From the entry grande duchesse
  • It raised a lot of money for the convent.2017, Rachel Khong, the editors of Lucky Peach, Lucky Peach All About Eggs: Everything We Know About the World's Most Important Food…. From the entry rompope
  • A convent is a world apart, unduplicable.2009 July 9, Jane Gross, “Sisters Face Death With Dignity and Reverence”, in New York Times. From the entry unduplicable
  • Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent.1965, Janice Woodley, Not in this Way. From the entry quickshaw
  • She was bunked from the convent last term.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 4, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, book 1 (Et in Arcadia Ego)…. From the entry bunk
  • Divergence in religious rule and observance for women within the Franciscan order undoubtedly complicated the assimilation of the Irish Poor Clare sisters within Spanish convents.2022 October 18, Bronagh Ann McShane, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration, Boydell &…. From the entry religious
  • Whereupon, Kalchelik kicked him up the backside and told him not to be such a soggy-hearted woosy—this was a hygiene unit, not a bloomin' convent.2021, Malcolm J Wardlaw, Death by Decent Society. From the entry woosy
  • Concurrent with the spread of Sufi convents in Iran, a Shiitisation of Sufi beliefs occurred regarding the theory of sainthood in particular.2008, Oliver Scharbrodt, Islam and the Baha'i Faith. From the entry Shiitisation
  • So I walked into the Dubuque convent with several gallons of ice cream and immediately began to worry we hadn’t brought enough.2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7. From the entry Dubuque
  • Robin and Marian—Autumn romance with Audrey Hepburn as older Maid Marian who, now in a convent, meets up with older Robin, Sean Connery.2006, Susan Swartz, “Movies that know how to treat a tomato”, in The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry autumn romance
  • Strict enclosure presented additional complexities when the convent churches were open to the lay public, as was the case in the Clarissan order ("Poor Clares").2005, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, c. 1213–1340”, in Medieval Religion: New Approaches, page 249. From the entry Clarissan
  • The convent has no vehicular access.1932, John Gray, Park—a Fantastic Story, Aylesford, Kent: Saint Albert’s Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry archprincess
  • James was going with his mother to attend the ceremonies at which his oldest sister in the convent would make perpetual vows.1923 January, “The Sunshine of Childhood (Contributed)”, in Benedict Brown, editor, The Grail, volume 4, number 9, St. Meinrad, Ind.: The…. From the entry a
  • The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.1906, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days, volume 1, page 807. From the entry immure
  • He’s an old man now, his face wizened and his world limited to a cell in a former convent that serves as one of France’s maximum-security prisons.2026 July 23, Joby Warrick, “We Live With the Violent Mayhem Carlos the Jackal Unleashed”, in The New York Times. From the entry wizened
  • Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.1915, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter II, in The Good Soldier […], Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books…. From the entry cloistral
  • Louis to see her and report on conditions in the convent she was directing, the visitatrix made a swift decision and ordered the closing of the boarding school at St.1957, Louise Callan, “The Reality of God’s Will”, in Philippine Duchesne, Frontier Missionary of the Sacred Heart, 1769–1852, Westminster…. From the entry visitatrix

Meaning of convent

  1. noun A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
  2. noun The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
  3. noun Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.

Full definition of convent

Questions about convent in a sentence

How do you use convent in a sentence?
Convent is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.”
What is a short sentence with convent?
“The convent has no vehicular access.”
What does convent mean?
Convent means a religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.

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