How to Use convent in a Sentence

convent

noun
  • Decades ago, the site was a convent.
    — Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Or a pile of stones where once there had been a convent.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By the time Thomas was born, his mother had left the convent.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Most of the other nuns who entered the convent with her have died.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • What happens when a small convent of nuns needs to raise funds quickly?
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 10 July 2022
  • Of course, the parents had to pay less to a convent than to a bridegroom.
    — Jane Hu, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2021
  • Jamie helps Joanie join a convent and cuts ties with Laoghaire for good.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Join a nunnery, there’ll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Join a nunnery, there'll always be a place for you in the convent.
    — Rachel Tashjian, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • Secrets from the convent's past are dredged up, along with a few spirits.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • Or stayed overnight at a convent with nuns in Connecticut?
    — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2025
  • There’s the one about the young woman who fell in love with a farmer boy before her parents sent her to the convent.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 18 Oct. 2022
  • One house was the school, while the other was a convent and dormitory.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 30 Sep. 2022
  • When six beloved nuns are brutally murdered at the local convent, the town grieves.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Chilperic’s first wife had been exiled many years before, parked in a convent in Rouen.
    — Shelley Puhak, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Six beloved nuns have been brutally murdered at the local convent.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And to these art workers, that inevitably includes the beloved hilltop convent.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Over time, the school moved buildings and later added a convent in 1890.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023
  • There’s a pivotal scene in which a sister has been instructed by the convent’s priest not to open the gates to strangers.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • Or the moment when the entire convent rips their habits open in a hysterical mass-flash.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Joyce had already been thinking about leaving the convent because of changes the church was making.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Upon their return, the nuns found the convent looted as well as mostly destroyed.
    — Rachel King, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • She and her two sisters were placed by their father as charity pupils in the convent at Aubazine.
    — Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Those kind of circles can be seen elsewhere in the convent, filled with Christian imagery.
    — Fernanda Pesce, ajc, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Her parents sent her to high school in a Pennsylvania convent.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers predict that the number of nuns living in the convent varied.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The convent was built by the monks on a patch of land donated to them by local aristocrats, and carved out of a rocky hill flank.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • About ten of the nuns have mobility issues, while there are only seven wheel chairs at the convent.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • Your novel features a crisis of authority about whether the convent should build a wall to keep out the plague.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • She was known for her volatile temper and gun-toting, which eventually led to her being kicked out of the convent.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2021

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