NUNNERY in a Sentence

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1. He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.

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 Meanings and Examples of NUNNERY
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nunnery
 n.  house in which nuns reside; cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows
Classic Sentence:
1  He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
2  And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
3  From Prince Shcherbatov's house the prisoners were led straight down the Virgin's Field, to the left of the nunnery, as far as a kitchen garden in which a post had been set up.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle -- a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested.