How to Use cloister in a Sentence

cloister

1 of 2 noun
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  • The canopy of leaves creates a sort of cloister around the pool, a shady respite.
    — USA Today, 2 Sep. 2021
  • All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • To their left, a cloister of coniferous trees, swaying in the breeze.
    — Ling Ma, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • Even in isolation, in the cloister of a closed set, Sui’s clothes are commanding.
    — Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Start at the Graça Convent, whose tiled chapel and Baroque cloister opened to the public for the first time after recent restorations (free).
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The ceiling is tall and arched, like the hallways of a cloister, and offers acoustics befitting a motet.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Details are being kept under the cloister, but the new story is said to still be set in the 1950s and the Nun isn’t quite vanquished as some believed.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Sep. 2022
  • With no straight walls in the entire home, the design is meant to feel like entering some of the most sacred spaces of humankind: a womb, a cloister, a cave.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 12 May 2022
  • Stroll through the ancient stone rooms and imagine the lives of the monks who lived, worshiped and meditated along the stunning cloister and gardens.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The grounds include ancient cloisters, homes of clergy and senior staff, and three gardens.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • This, perhaps, is how many in the West see the burqa, and also the hijab (a covering for the head and chest) and the niqab (a face veil)—cloth cloisters of Islam, the second-largest religion in the world.
    — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Among the most renowned of the cloister’s early tenants was the young cleric Abérlard, founder of a school to which the present-day University of Paris traces its origins.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The historic old stone cloisters lent an otherworldly feel to the collection of frothy, spell-binding looks that seemed to merge the tulle of 1900s gowns with styles of the low-slung gaucho.
    — Thomas Adamson, The Seattle Times, 2 July 2017
  • Few traces of Edward the Confessor's abbey remain, but one can be found in a dim passageway between the east cloister and the chapter house.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • For the Cruise 2017 show, held in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, Michele designed velvet and needlepoint pillows that served both as cushions for guests and as a take-home gift.
    — Melissa Minton, Allure, 12 July 2017
  • Indeed, the cloister of Fetch the Bolt Cutters is somehow packed with visions of humans other than Apple.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The roof surrounded a central cloister in which a pomegranate tree had overgrown its yard.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Planted with towering trees from Normandy, this garden thus pays homage to the medieval cloister, while the esplanade mirrors the size of the Place de la Concorde.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
  • Were all the sacramental touches — the porch, arch, nave, and aisles, with a cloister of sorts out back — a tongue-in-cheek reference to AT&T’s omnipresence in American life?
    — Curbed, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Vaulted ceilings, thick stone walls, and a silent cloister are made bright and airy thanks to modern furniture, warm wood, and soaring windows.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Certosa di San Giacomo, a 14th-century monastery with a large grassy cloister area and a stunning view of the Mediterranean.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • No Arles postman, or peasants, just starry nights and cypresses and the carpets in the hallway and the asylum’s cryptic ground floor cloister.
    — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Silent men were observed about the country, or discovered in the forest, digging, clearing, and building; and other silent men, not seen, were sitting in the cold cloister, . . .
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Behind the cloister seal, the sisters gossip and backstab each other, sneak out and throw parties, driven mad by men but mostly each other.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The square shape gives it a cloister, with open space surrounded by the five apartments (one with two bedrooms), a tasting area, a restaurant, barrel halls and technical areas.
    — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Meander through the cloister of the monastery or discover the island’s history at a museum.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The royal couple will also meet members of the local community in the cloisters next to the 12th-century cathedral.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Note the play of the disciplined-spare and heaped-on opulent; of openness and cloister; of historical and geographic mix.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 9 July 2021
  • Our writer finds the perfect balance of contemporary art, scary medieval weapons, Gothic cloisters and wide-open space.
    — Andrew Ferren, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • If the medieval Irish monks could have devoted themselves to the task of preserving the best of what Western civilization has given us lately, their cloister might look a lot like this.
    — João Canziani, Esquire, 22 Jan. 2018
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cloister

2 of 2 verb
  • He was cloistered at the White House away from public view.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • A year of extremes, 2020 has driven some people to claim the streets and others to cloister at home.
    — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Fears of Covid-19 then kept them both cloistered in the mother’s studio apartment.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • The IT Academy now has its classrooms cloistered in one area.
    — Darryl Enriquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2018
  • Want to take a walk but cloistered inside because of the pandemic?
    — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 2 May 2020
  • At least, not while they were cloistered inside the Pentagon.
    — Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
  • At the center of the building is a courtyard, cloistered from the rest of the world with a table for picnics, a small slide, and other play equipment for young children.
    — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2017
  • Spend a few days hiking the Lousios Gorge and you’re less likely to encounter tourists than monks cloistered in the area’s working monasteries, some of which date to the Middle Ages.
    — Thomas Linkel, National Geographic, 18 July 2019
  • Here, the sisters are cloistered from the public behind no-nunsense, spiky window grilles with tiny peepholes in the latticework for the nuns to see through.
    — Rick Steves, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Over the course of four hours, you will be cloistered away in your own private culinary bubble in which your focus can be firmly fixed on the food and wine before you.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The eight give up part of their lunch period daily to cloister themselves in tiny practice rooms with scuffed off-white tiles and years of student scribbling on the walls.
    — Philly.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The other is Ruiter’s response to the rolling living room that the modern automobile has become, cloistering drivers from the rest of the world.
    — Adam Tschorn, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
  • But Rodrigo knows better now, or at least knows more: Rapid stardom has both bolstered and cloistered her.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 4 July 2023
  • Not as someone cloistered in the suburbs, rather someone who’s loitering on the corner of poverty.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • There are the two Armenian Orthodox priests who have remained cloistered in their church to protect an icon of the Virgin.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Many of these women were abused, cloistered, and prevented from leaving their hometowns.
    — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • The alarms sounded in March 2020, and Americans cloistered at home, sheltering from a pandemic killing at times thousands a day.
    — Stephanie Stamm, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • At one point, there were nearly 200 mission women living here, mostly cloistered, like nuns.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Surrounded by beautiful stone walls, the tomato plants sit cloistered in four quadrants framed by low hedges, roses, and apple trees.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2018
  • His team of top advisers, cloistered among the executive offices on the seventh floor of the State Department, scrambled to contain the fallout.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Mary Todd Lincoln, his widow, was cloistered in the White House, wailing in grief, unable to reach her closest confidante: her dressmaker.
    — Nancy Wartik, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2018
  • Carolyn and her 11 siblings have spent years cloistered under Father's strict tutelage, studying the ancient texts in the library that has special powers.
    — Lizz Schumer, goodhousekeeping.com, 16 May 2023
  • When their vessels became trapped in the ice north of Canada, the voyagers cloistered themselves inside their ships, instead of seeking survival advice from the native Inuit.
    — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Muhammad Ali’s death last year reminded us that there has never been a time when the sports world was cloistered from divisive political questions.
    — Ben Mathis-Lilley, Slate Magazine, 26 Mar. 2017
  • But until recently, Hot Chicken has been cloistered in Nashville.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
  • He was cloistered onto this compound in Pyongyang, or other royal residences around the country.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • Instead, they were cloistered in a separate room as her testimony piped in by speakerphone.
    — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Instead, they were cloistered in a separate room, as her testimony piped in by speakerphone.
    — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • With folks cloistered at home, there could be some money in delivering for other platforms such as Grubhub or DoorDash.
    — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2020
  • At the same time, the cozy, moodily dark lobby was conceived to be a communal social space — rare for Japan, a country where lodging tends to be more cloistered — for locals and tourists to work on their laptops or drink highballs with friends.
    — Kurt Soller M.h. Miller Angela Koh Rachel Felder Chris Schalkx, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023

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