cloister

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

They should be able to move into a modular cloister of about 3,500 square feet on the donated land by year’s end, Pfaff said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

Into the small cloister, through a hallway to the large 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

He had been described as "the songster of tennis lawns and cathedral cloisters".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023

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

“I assume he’s after that knife. You know it has a name? The cliff-ghasts of the north call it the god-destroyer,” he went on, crossing to the window and looking down over the cloisters.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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 can’t be Fleetwood. He’s cloistered in French Lick. I have to find Jakob. I have to go back to the Park.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

Even as a child he was a bibliomaniac, spending his waking hours flipping pages “stiff as cartilage,” deciphering marginalia and cloistering himself in a reality of his own making.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2014

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

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