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Nun
"Nun" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived and worked in Calcutta, India.
When she became a nun, she took the name Sister Teresa.
The nun prayed and crossed herself.
Tom thinks he knows why Mary decided to become a nun.
Mary became a nun and opened an orphanage.
Are you really a nun?
She's a nun.
Mary wants to be a nun.
The nun is fine, but I liked the other one more.
Tom's sister is a nun.
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Thus, when the nuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.
a Buddhist nun
Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart little nun in her ſuite.
"I mean to inform you," answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety [...]"
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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