NUN in a Sentence
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63 example sentences for NUN, such as:
1. The nun did not raise her eyes.
2. She was a nun as other women are cooks.
3. The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.
4. No one was present excepting the nun and the mayor.
5. She decided to be a nun in order to avoid meeting him.
2. She was a nun as other women are cooks.
3. The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.
4. No one was present excepting the nun and the mayor.
5. She decided to be a nun in order to avoid meeting him.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of NUN
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nun
n. a buoy resembling a cone
n. the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1 She was a nun as other women are cooks.
2 She sang it in so sad a voice, and to so sweet an air, that it was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
3 She lay down again, with the nun's assistance, helped the nun to arrange her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
4 The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
5 No one was present excepting the nun and the mayor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
6 The emotions of that day had turned the nun into a woman once more.
7 The nun did not raise her eyes.
8 Javert caught sight of the nun and halted in amazement.
9 When a nun is summoned to the parlor, even were it the prioress herself, she drops her veil, as will be remembered, so that only her mouth is visible.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
10 If, by chance, an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
11 If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only for a mother or sister.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
12 About this time there was in the convent a mysterious person who was not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as Madame Albertine.
13 She was a nun of Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived.
14 She was learned, erudite, wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than a Benedictine nun.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
15 The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost blind.
Example Sentence:
1 She decided to be a nun in order to avoid meeting him.
2 The nuns in the convent were noted for their piety; they spent their days in worship and prayer.
3 The nuns lived a secluded life in the cloister.
4 According to the Buddhist point of view, monks and nuns are supposed to hold renunciation vows.