How to Use monastery in a Sentence

monastery

noun
  • Gregory Mendel worked out his concepts of genetics by doing breeding experiments using pea plants in the monastery's garden.
  • Smith sits with monks in a monastery, cross-legged on the ground.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
  • There were queues of refugees queuing for food in a monastery.
    — National Geographic, 28 July 2020
  • Boyle became, for many, the beloved face of the monastery.
    — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The monks raised their hoods and made their way back into the monastery.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Bruni said that the pontiff then stayed at the monastery for a time of prayer.
    — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Monks in black robes and rope belts wandered the grounds of an on-site monastery.
    — Albert Stumm, The Seattle Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • All of this has already become old hat for them at the monastery.
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • Burke would come up with plans to rebuild the monastery’s chapter house.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2018
  • An enchained monk is said to haunt the rear terrace, where a monastery once stood.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The monastery’s longtime guard had set it on fire, even though the abbot had asked him not to.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In some ways, though, modern life has reached the monastery; many of the monks have smartphones.
    — Marina Harss, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The fires from the monasteries were rumored to have burned for weeks.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The confessors in his monastery were so sick of him coming again and again.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Nothing could be heard in the hilltop monastery but birdsong.
    — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Furba spins the prayer wheels surrounding the base of the monastery.
    — Joe Baur, Outside, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Chopin composed roughly half of the preludes in the monastery.
    — Michael O’Donnell, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2018
  • His body was returned to the monastery, where we was buried March 16.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The monastery was always so welcoming and open.
    — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The bodies were seen lined up and slumped against the monastery’s walls with pools of blood on the ground below.
    — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • No one has uttered a word since the monastery was founded 130 years ago.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The nearest shelter is a remote monastery.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Near the monastery someone shouting through a bullhorn.
    — Chen Yuhong, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Most of these books were for the monastery’s own use, though some monasteries produced codices for sale.
    — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • The school, located in a monastery, was set up in secret after the coup.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • There is one at Twitter who takes action while Dorsey mans the monastery.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • In the past, Sisters at the monastery were not seen from behind the curtain.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The monks vacated the property this past week, and the monastery was closed.
    — John Mossman, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Now, 11 nuns, from ages 38 to 85 live in the Catholic monastery.
    — Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Take a break from it all by heading to a monastery or RVing for three years?
    — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020

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