cloister

Example Sentences

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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

Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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

The last time that Fernanda saw her, trying to keep up with the novice, the iron grating of the cloister had just closed behind her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez