Explore Convents through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Convents meaning
plural of convent
Using Convents
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of convent
- In the example corpus, convents often appears in combinations such as: and convents, convents and, catholic convents.
Context around Convents
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 8 middle, 12 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Convents
- In this selection, "convents" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, catholic, seventeen, toledo and earned stand out and add context to how "convents" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include churches and convents and 5 carmelite convents. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "convents" sits close to words such as abattoirs, abike and ablative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with convents
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Many churches and convents are named after him. (8 words)
In 1910 it numbered seventeen convents or secondary houses. (9 words)
Main sights Burgos is rich in ancient churches and convents. (10 words)
The imagery provides the basis for the concept that God gave Mary to mankind as the "Gate of Heaven" (thence the dedication of churches and convents to the Porta Coeli), an idea also laid out in the Salve Regina ( Hail Holy Queen ) prayer. (43 words)
After his death the surviving daughters were banished from the court by their brother, the pious Louis, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequeathed by their father. (31 words)
The main clauses modified concerned fasting and remaining within individual cells: the bull allowed them to eat meat three days a week and to perambulate in the cloisters of their convents. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
I went to school in India, in different places, and several convents.
The average age of a Roman Catholic nun in the United States is close to 80 Convents around the country are closing.
Visitors may admire paintings and sculptures loaned from different sources, including St George’s Basilica and other churches and convents.
Philbin went to Paris and Rome, and stayed in convents because it was so cheap.
After his death the surviving daughters were banished from the court by their brother, the pious Louis, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequeathed by their father.
He had several important charges in the convents he lived in, but this did not limit his art, which very soon became famous.
His belief and religious commitment revitalized, Pascal visited the older of two convents at Port-Royal for a two-week retreat in January 1655.
His possessions were confiscated and his two daughters were taken from his widow and were forced into Catholic convents.
In 1910 it numbered seventeen convents or secondary houses.
In all, before Mexican independence in 1821, of 56 nunneries there were 5 Carmelite convents.
Lee, Nunneries, Learning, and Spirituality, 14. In places besides Germany, convents were founded as retreats from the world for women of the upper classes.
Main sights Burgos is rich in ancient churches and convents.
Many churches and convents are named after him.
Mortier, p. 323. Bernardus Guidonis, however, states that, when the Province of Lombardy was divided in 1303, there were thirty-three convents.
One of the main avenues for the mixing of the two cuisines was in convents.
She was in Medina to found the second of her convents for women.
Since the Civil War, most of the steps were burned or destroyed, so it had to create new steps or using images from other churches and convents Toledo.
The abundance of landmark, historic temples along with the plenitude of monasteries and convents earned the city a countrywide reputation as the "Northern Rome" in the past.
The imagery provides the basis for the concept that God gave Mary to mankind as the "Gate of Heaven" (thence the dedication of churches and convents to the Porta Coeli), an idea also laid out in the Salve Regina ( Hail Holy Queen ) prayer.
The main clauses modified concerned fasting and remaining within individual cells: the bull allowed them to eat meat three days a week and to perambulate in the cloisters of their convents.
Common combinations with convents
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and convents 6×
- convents and 4×
- catholic convents 2×
- in convents 2×
- the convents 2×