cloister

Local Catholic women raised funds to build the nuns a new cloister, chapel and office complex on site in 1948, the buildings designed by celebrated architect Wallace Neff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

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

A chocolate kitchen, chocolate serving room, chocolate cloister and full chocolate staff are optional.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023

Brother Bartholomew, the boys’ teacher, shuffled in from the adjacent cloister and pulled back his hood, revealing his flabby face, tiny eyes, and permanent sneer.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Finally, as we’re not all venturing out of our pandemic cloisters just yet, here’s a fun Italian red to order online for your next pizza night.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2021

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

He was born into the cloistered art world as the son of a German Jewish art dealer who fled Berlin in the 1930s and restarted his business in London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

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

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025

A vast blaze has torn through the historic Bernaga Monastery in northern Italy, the Italian fire service said Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 22 cloistered nuns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2025

It was the most rational Thanksgiving he had ever spent, and he took a sacred oath to spend every future Thanksgiving Day in the cloistered shelter of a hospital.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

And they say they have considered adding metal detectors, only to conclude that they are unnecessary and cloistering.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2018

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

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