How to Use cloister in a Sentence

cloister

1 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • Umbria thrives in the quiet of a cloister, the scent of rain on ancient stone, the warmth of a local smile.
    — Matteo Della Grazia, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Yes, the garden cloister arches are brand new, but the seamless blend of old and fake old really works.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
  • The cathedral, its peaceful cloister, and its ornate crypt are also worth a visit.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
  • 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
  • The grounds include ancient cloisters, homes of clergy and senior staff, and three gardens.
    — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The roof surrounded a central cloister in which a pomegranate tree had overgrown its yard.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The ceiling is tall and arched, like the hallways of a cloister, and offers acoustics befitting a motet.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • There are still 20 friars who live in the convent around the cloister carrying out their duties.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Long, arched hallways lead to the guest rooms, restaurants, castle-like lounge spaces, and even an ancient cloister from the former monastery.
    — Hannah Chubb, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • But some cloister themselves in the bone marrow, eking out small quantities of antibodies.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • Meander through the cloister of the monastery or discover the island’s history at a museum.
    — National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Just off the bustling street known as Spaccanapoli, which runs through the historic center, this quiet cloister feels like a tranquil oasis removed from the chaos.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Just off the bustling street known as Spaccanapoli, which runs through the historic center, this peaceful cloister feels like a tranquil oasis removed from the chaos.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Keeping all the glassmakers in a cloister also meant that their secret techniques (recipes of cristallo were highly guarded) would remain that way.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Beneath the rib vault of the exquisite cloister, sculpted marble columns and round apertures paint a stunning natural chiaroscuro.
    — Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Inside, visitors will find a church, tower, cloister, and several detailed stone sculptures.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 2026
  • Inside, visitors will find a church, tower, cloister, and several detailed stone sculptures.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • On their Instagram account, Rita, 82, can be seen rushing about the cloisters and dabbling in boxing lessons.
    — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 1 Dec. 2025
  • My online cloister is nowhere close to the nightmare facing the people under medical orders to quarantine or isolate in hotels, nursing homes and cruise ships.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020

cloister

2 of 2 verb
  • No one wanted to be cloistered in the Capitol this long.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • Many of these women were abused, cloistered, and prevented from leaving their hometowns.
    — Jackson Holahan, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • 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
  • Not as someone cloistered in the suburbs, rather someone who’s loitering on the corner of poverty.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • She has been coddled and cloistered within her city, but the spreading vegetation interferes with that way of life.
    — Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, they were cloistered in a separate room as her testimony piped in by speakerphone.
    — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In addition to being cloistered inside with their abuser, job and financial losses can inflame stress.
    — Casey Tolan, CNN, 4 Apr. 2020
  • He was cloistered onto this compound in Pyongyang, or other royal residences around the country.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • But until recently, Hot Chicken has been cloistered in Nashville.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 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
  • 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
  • Then proceed to the dining patio that feels like a secret garden, where the tables and fountains are cloistered among 100 or so flourishing plant species.
    — New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Subsequent experiments with light-and-space-bending geometric resin columns brought him out of the private studio and cloistered art gallery and into the everyday world.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • She is cloistered away from the public when not being prodded into action for brief votes, and is surrounded by a phalanx of defensive aides whenever members of the media approach.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike Mare, whose community was cloistered and intimate, Task builds a wider world of dealers, gangsters, and thieves, not always to its benefit.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ken Inocencio was quietly cloistered at home with his three teenage children, trying to stave off the deadly coronavirus, when a fire engulfed their apartment in Alameda.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • 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.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Players are notoriously cloistered during the World Cup and are especially loath to speak about their fitness secrets, so the contents of their bottles are not known.
    — New York Times, 11 July 2018

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