: a local community or house of a religious order or congregation
especially
: an establishment of nuns
Examples of convent in a Sentence
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Yasmin Fahr, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Our visit to the rest of the museum, which is housed in a former convent and showcases examples dating back to the 15th century, was brief, my desire for tile-gazing conflicting with Lulu’s flagging energy level.
—Jessamine Chan, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
Almost every time a character or place in town is on the verge of becoming too self-consciously twee — the local convent has a yoga studio, and two nuns in the kitchen who trained under Jamie Oliver — the show finds a way to reveal some specific, extremely human detail about them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
This was true even back in 1949 when then-cub-reporter Gabriel García Marquez went to cover excavation work in the former convent and witnessed a crypt that held a skeleton with a long mane of red hair.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
In the novel, Mila arrives at the convent and searches for her daughter with Tymoteusz, the father of another child.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
She’s grown up dirt poor, been sent to a convent and winds up summoned to the bedroom of a bored, pampered king who cycles through mistresses as if they were soiled laundry.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
Popular on Variety The movie follows Sweeney as an American nun, Sister Cecilia, who transfers to a convent in the Italian countryside.
—Lexi Carson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
In Immaculate, Sweeney plays Cecilia, a nun who is sent to a convent in Italy that tends to dying nuns.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
Noun
Museu de Menorca, housed in a former convent, tells the history of the island, including its Talayotic culture and various periods of occupation.
LÔAC is a contemporary art museum that features Spanish artists in a former schoolhouse in the town of Alaior.
—Yasmin Fahr, New York Times, 16 May 2024
Our visit to the rest of the museum, which is housed in a former convent and showcases examples dating back to the 15th century, was brief, my desire for tile-gazing conflicting with Lulu’s flagging energy level.
—Jessamine Chan, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2024
Almost every time a character or place in town is on the verge of becoming too self-consciously twee — the local convent has a yoga studio, and two nuns in the kitchen who trained under Jamie Oliver — the show finds a way to reveal some specific, extremely human detail about them.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
This was true even back in 1949 when then-cub-reporter Gabriel García Marquez went to cover excavation work in the former convent and witnessed a crypt that held a skeleton with a long mane of red hair.
—Eleni N. Gage, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
In the novel, Mila arrives at the convent and searches for her daughter with Tymoteusz, the father of another child.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 2 May 2024
She’s grown up dirt poor, been sent to a convent and winds up summoned to the bedroom of a bored, pampered king who cycles through mistresses as if they were soiled laundry.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
Popular on Variety The movie follows Sweeney as an American nun, Sister Cecilia, who transfers to a convent in the Italian countryside.
—Lexi Carson, Variety, 16 Apr. 2024
In Immaculate, Sweeney plays Cecilia, a nun who is sent to a convent in Italy that tends to dying nuns.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2024
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“Convent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/convent. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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