cloister

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

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

Fourteen years later, Catholic women in Los Angeles raised funds to build the sisters a new cloister, chapel and office complex on the same site, designed by celebrated architect Wallace Neff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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

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

He carried Robin in and out of halls and chambers, kitchen and parlor, cloisters and outer court; through refectory and almonry, stopping, as always, in the chapel to say a prayer.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

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

Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

After Maria’s cloistered life at Waltha, Amsterdam must have felt like the center of the world.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

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

Both the paintings and the small gallery holding them feel cloistering yet claustrophobic.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022

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