"nun" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

nun sustantivo

nun + verbo
Kolokacji: 32
nun says • nun lives • nun teaches • nun takes • nun tells • ...
(2) live, sit, stand
Kolokacji: 3
1. nun lives = życia zakonnicy nun lives
2. nun sits = zakonnica siada nun sits
3. nun stands = zakonnica stoi nun stands
  • The seats are hinged and lift up so the monk or nun can stand upright for the services.
  • The two nuns who had accompanied her stood behind her, like waiting-women.
  • A nun, a large, severe-looking woman, her black habit blowing in the soft breeze, stood there before us.
  • But each nun stood fast, glancing at her neighbor out of the corners of her eyes.
  • The younger nun walked a little way up the road to the next bend and stood there.
  • As in Arabic, nun as an abbreviation can stand for neqevah, feminine.
  • As he appeared in the doorway, the nun rose, gave a low cry, and stood staring.
  • The nun stood quiet for a moment.
  • The nuns and priests wouldn't stand for noise, but if we kept quiet there were few punishments.
  • The nuns were all standing now, waiting.
(4) wear, refuse, try
Kolokacji: 3
(5) begin, belong, look, enter
Kolokacji: 4
verbo + nun
Kolokacji: 3
nun called • nun named • see nuns
adjetivo + nun
Kolokacji: 22
Catholic nun • young nun • American nun • old nun • cloistered nun • ...
preposición + nun
Kolokacji: 8
of nuns • for nuns • with nuns • by nuns • to the nuns • ...

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