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• The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.From the entry abbess
• The joke about the nuns in the bath cracked me up.From the entry crack up
• The nuns prayed on the matter daily, sending flutters of devotion to the heavens.From the entry flutter
• I have a number of body piercings that would make a nun shiver.From the entry body piercing
• I say, I say, I say! Did you hear the one about the nun in a maternity ward?From the entry I say
• When the nuns weren't watching, I rested my head on his shoulder.2021 June 10, Anna McPartlin, Waiting for the Miracle: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting novel from the bestselling author…. From the entry orange
• The priests and nuns in the camp proved that they had real strength of character.2015, Olga Lengyel, Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story Of Auschwitz, →ISBN. From the entry ecclesiast
• While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun.2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All. From the entry pull
• The corporate nun turned from the elevator smiling at them helpfully.2007, Michael Hollister, Salishan. From the entry corporate nun
• Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.2006, Jimmy Butt, Felicity Dargan, I've Been Bloody Lucky: The Story of an Orphan Named Jimmy Butt, page 17. From the entry crook
• A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 315. From the entry cell
• Wendy was a sad creature, a corporate nun who dedicated her life to serving the Gazette.1998, Elaine Viets, Rubout. From the entry corporate nun
• I sought out my spiritual adviser — a dear old nun from college.1992, Marie Christine N. Bantug, Hugot sa sinapupunan, page 43. From the entry soulsearch
• In Dykes we are black, we are Asian, we are mothers, nuns, and ruggers.1986 February 15, Veneita Porter, “Dykes To Watch Out For [review]”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 39. From the entry read someone's beads
• Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.1983, Betty Fussell, Masters of American Cookery, University of Nebraska Press, published 2005, →ISBN, part 3, 367. From the entry chocoholic
• As a group of men, the "Sisters" trivialize a group of women (nuns).1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry transperson
• In the intense religious practices of yoginis or nuns, the menstrual period can stop altogether.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry yogini
• And we all wore a skirt over our heads, sort of like a nun thing.1980 April 19, Cindy Rizzo, Maxine Feldman, “Give Me That Ol' Lesbianism!”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry topsider
• Sister MICHAELINA, who, before she became a nun, was Miss Frances Melrose of St.1920 August 8, “Obituary”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Michaelina
• When asked why they had done that, the nuns replied, “This is what the Church calendar says: two ‘varenyes’ with oil.”2021 April 6, Tatiana Veselkina, quoting Nadezhda Mokhova, translated by Dmitry Lapa, “In the House of the Mother of God: Protodeacon…. From the entry varenye
• She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times. From the entry Blessed Virgin Mary
• I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.2013, Janis Pegrum Smith, More than Gold, [United Kingdom]: T*P Books, Wilton End Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry blag
• The teacher – not a nun, tall with short brown hair and wearin wojus knee-high wine leather boots – turns.2007, Mia Gallagher, HellFire: a novel, Penguin, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry wojus
• Make a couple of nuns a couple of dimes.2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson…. From the entry dime
• Nuns and junkies give up their habits for me!1989, Magistra Batrix/Magus Coyote, “Brag of the Female SubGenius”, in The Stark Fist of Removal, volume 17, No. 41 & 42, The SubGenius…. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
• Incidentally, another Felician nun, Sister Mary Reginette, will be leaving her post as head of the college’s Religious Department.1979 August 26, James F. Lynch, “New Jersey Journal”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Felician
• 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
• Then the audience and the actor would listen desperately for the frantic, shushy promptings of the nun in the wings.1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 34. From the entry shushy
• Mother Teresa Gertrude O’Sullivan, then Provincial, did not give higher education for Loreto nuns the same priority as had Mothers Gonzaga and Stanislaus.2009, Mary Ryllis Clark, Loreto in Australia, University of New South Wales Press, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry mother
• Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.2008 July 4, “Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever”, in The Scotsman. From the entry nunsploitation
• What are the nuns for, decoration?2008, Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith. From the entry fantasywear
• When I was in eighth grade, Ireland was to me a green, shamrocky, distant land that kept the United States supplied with priests and nuns.1998, Mariá del Carmen Boza, Scattering the Ashes, page 149. From the entry shamrocky
• Indeed, on several occasions, the Bishop of Lincoln was forced to upbraid both abbess and nuns for unseemliness in dress and behaviour.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 174. From the entry upbraid
• The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman.1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 340. From the entry white russian
• "Methingks you Clithereare's nun hath a reasty look , forsooth!" "Reasty?", retorted that housewife, " Callest thou me a whipper-ginnie, thou hufty-tufty cumtwang?"1978, Logophile - Volume 2, Issue 6, page 10. From the entry reasty
• Sister Guerlin, the visitatrix of the Daughters of Charity from Istanbul, was at Panaya, alone in the garden by the little cottage of the nuns.1965, Bernard F[rancis] Deutsch, “Shrine of Our Lady of Ephesus”, in Our Lady of Ephesus, Milwaukee, Wis.: The Bruce Publishing Company…. From the entry visitatrix
• The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.1942, Emily Carr, “Chain Gang”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry billow
• The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.2011, Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All. From the entry pull
• She was trained by the nuns to be their cook and therefore she learned to make very beautiful and sumptuous gourmet dishes, including croissants and delicious fancy desserts.2011, Frank Cebulski, Lonely Nights and Wild Women: Concrete Visual Shaped Poems, page 54. From the entry makowiec

Meaning of nun

1. noun A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
2. noun A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
3. noun A prostitute.

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How do you use nun in a sentence?

Nun is used as a noun. For example: “The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.”

What is a short sentence with nun?

“a Buddhist nun”

What does nun mean?

Nun means a member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.