cloister

The National Trust said the walls were the "buried remains of monastery buildings including a cloister and various other buildings, as well as later Tudor alterations".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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

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

“Consider,” Father Monaghan says, “that you are going to an austere cloister, a Carmel, where Christ awaits you.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

In the first of the film series, the troll who smashed up the girls' toilets, trapping Hermione, is seen walking along the cloisters, while Harry and Ron hid in the Lavatorium.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

I was thrilled to get inside to feel and photograph all of this, as well as the cathedral’s cloisters, in the solitude of the faintest first rays.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021

The cloisters were once more free of strangers and the corridors cleared of beds and pallets.

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

Wyle: I’m not that aware of it because I feel mostly cloistered once we start production on Soundstages 21 and 22.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

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