MONASTERY in a Sentence

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The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there at Christmas and Easter.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONASTERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
monastery
 n.  house of religious retirement, or of seclusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The monastery is the product of the formula: Equality, Fraternity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
2  The monastery is a renunciation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
3  No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
4  He had her brought into and carried out of the monastery of Saint-Yuste in this manner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
5  When d'Artagnan arrived in sight of the bare spot of ground which extended along the foot of the monastery, Athos had been waiting about five minutes, and twelve o'clock was striking.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
6  In the monastery there is a recluse who never looks upon a human face.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  At the Troitsa monastery the Rostovs first broke their journey for a whole day.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
8  Three large rooms were assigned to them in the monastery hostelry, one of which was occupied by Prince Andrew.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
9  In the next room sat the count and countess respectfully conversing with the prior, who was calling on them as old acquaintances and benefactors of the monastery.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
10  Here an ancient monastery, whence the solemn chanting of the monks came down to them.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
11  As quiet as a monastery, and almost as roomy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
12  You forget, Fanny, how lately all this has been built, and for how confined a purpose, compared with the old chapels of castles and monasteries.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  It is my analysis of the documents found in the Coptic monasteries of Syria and Egypt, a work which will cut deep at the very foundation of revealed religion.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
14  So far as institution and formation with relation to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
15  Such are the ancient monasteries of Spain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Example Sentence:
1  The only regular visitors to the monastery in winter are parties of skiers who go there at Christmas and Easter.
2  Women are not allowed to enter the monastery for historical reasons.
3  China's earliest pawn shops were run by Buddhist monasteries; in recent decades monks are keen to attract visitors, paving roads to their temples and opening shops hawking spiritual tat.