cloister
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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
A chocolate kitchen, chocolate serving room, chocolate cloister and full chocolate staff are optional.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
The conversation in the rotunda was, of course, all about the Tonist cloister tragedy.
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
Gloucester's historic cathedral cloisters were transformed into the corridors of Hogwarts for the first two films and the Gothic building's lavatorium - a washing place - also features several times.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021
Abbot Mortimer sat in the grass of the Abbey cloisters.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
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
Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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
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