cloister
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Unlike most campus fiction, its scope extends well beyond the cloister of the liberal arts classroom to whammy the entire university system, from its financial model to its function within a globalized economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
He saw the sun on the frosted grass of the cloister.
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
Above the flowery cloisters, ferocious-looking gargoyles ignored the children noisily chasing each other and stretched toward the indigo late-summer sky, praying for rain.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
Abbot Mortimer sat in the grass of the Abbey cloisters.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Where Tumblr-ites dreamed of the cloistered quads and moody libraries of Princeton in the 2010s, TikTok-ers now obsess over the elaborate rituals of University of Alabama sororities.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
She picked Gita Kaur, whose grandmother had kept Gita virtually cloistered in the family house in Nairobi until she was 19.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
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
To me there’s a remote and cloistered feeling here.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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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