cloister

There the nun discovers her own inner sleuth, and unexpectedly finds joy in life outside the cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

A row of vaults seem to be supported by 14 superslim columns but are, in fact, suspended from the ceiling and give the room the sheltered quality of a cloister.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

The centre is described as a series of red brick "pavilions" housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber "cloister".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023

He also shoveled snow, pruned the courtyard garden and made minor repairs in the cloister, according to his wife, Christina Carroll, who held his funeral at the monastery.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

The entire cloister was now on fire, and although firefighters raced toward the blaze, they were intercepted by a young man stepping out of the main gate.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

It offers contemporary art, scary medieval weapons and Gothic cloisters.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The story is told with flair at STAM, the Ghent City Museum, whose very architecture — an amalgam of restored medieval cloisters and contemporary glass — reflects the modern city itself.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

Once, when playing Shakespeare’s Richard III, he pasted pages of the script to pillars in the school’s cloisters and spent the performance running between them.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019

He was served afternoon tea sitting on the grass in the cloisters.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

But inside the cloistered environs of the Christian right, it reads as tough.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Wyle: I’m not that aware of it because I feel mostly cloistered once we start production on Soundstages 21 and 22.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But until then, I cherish my cloistered time by the spoonful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Journalists who work for institutions are so cloistered and shut down at this point.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025

Then, catch this, my buddy Fang climbs out of the “soundproof” van where he’d been waiting like some cloistered game show contestant.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

Others focus on exploring values or on navigating the dynamics of a family-owned business, cloistering the kids in hotel conference rooms or Aspen compounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Others are signing up for defense classes or are cloistering themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

Is that truck double-parked on the streets of New York part of a movie set, a luxury trailer for cloistering camera-shy movie stars?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020

Also, reframe this into a gift of time—during this period of conscientious cloistering, as an opportunity to pursue talents and to “cultivate your garden.”

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2020

I hang up and run to the bathroom, steamy and cloistering.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali