noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
catholic
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Objections have arisen to Catholic nuns teaching in religious garb.
old
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The old nun gets out of the bath, leaving a trail of water on the floor as she unlocks the door.
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The old nun rose and scuttled across to him.
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Was the old nun referring to hands?
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But the old nun was sharp.
young
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I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun .
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She was a young nun with a deeply pocked face and bushy eyebrows that massed over the bridge of her large nose.
■ VERB
become
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She even considered becoming a nun .
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She had graduated from a Lutheran Bible college back home, and at one time she had seriously considered becoming a nun .
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I decide to become a nun .
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She and her five sisters became Carmelite nuns .
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Only a person of non-servile status might be ordained a clerk or become a monk or nun .
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Withburga resolved to become a nun after her father died in battle about the year 650.
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She'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she couldn't be with a baby.
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Georgiana later marries, and Eliza becomes a nun .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A single nun , working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.
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According to more than one witness, one of the nuns had her shoulder broken.
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Georgiana later marries, and Eliza becomes a nun .
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On the day of the crowning, the nuns gave all of us girls crowns of flowers to wear in our hair.
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The sun was beating down on our backs and our throats were becoming as dry as a proverbial nuns.
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These monks and nuns do not do this for their own good.