How to Use cloistered in a Sentence

cloistered

adjective
  • She leads a private, cloistered life in the country.
  • He spent most of his adult life cloistered in universities.
  • The actress got a kick out of ribbing her famous co-star about his cloistered life.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • Here are men who move heaven and earth to avoid a 9-to-5, and their cloistered throats say so loud and clear.
    — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Idaho town was a bit too cloistered though, at least for Dawson.
    — Samuel Gilbert, Outside Online, 16 May 2020
  • Or maybe the font is just denoting the cloistered lives of the people at this film’s center.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Others are turning to monks and other experts in cloistered life.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The yacht’s in Greece, which makes for a lovely visual getaway in these cloistered times.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2020
  • After all, workplaces can sometimes feel cloistered and gossipy and dull.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
  • My father couldn't have come from a more quintessentially cloistered background.
    — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2017
  • World events unraveled our daily lives and rearranged them in new and cloistered shapes.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Joe Biden is working the phones with top donors while cloistered in his Delaware home.
    — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The experience gives him a close-up look at the cloistered country over weeks, not a few days like most outsiders.
    — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 2 June 2018
  • His childhood was lonely and cloistered, and his father was mostly absent.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Another work looked at a cloistered nerd and his obsessive hobbies.
    — Paul Hodgins, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • The moment when the fairy tale about pure and cloistered colleges began to fall apart can be dated with some precision.
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • Don’t expect to see the bakers though—the nuns remain cloistered and sell their wares from behind a rotating door.
    — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In some ways, her writing mirrors the cloistered space in which these women were groomed and abused, where there is no world beyond the walls of the gym.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Having inherited a small fortune, the long-cloistered heiress hungers for friendship and love.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Solar Power is honest; its truths just feel cloistered and distant sometimes.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
  • But her mother guards her fiercely, because even the most minor imbalance in her small, cloistered world could bring the seizures back again.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Richardson’s game was perhaps among the last in the city to retain a trace of cloistered sophistication.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Though the last of the nuns left in 1912, there remains a sense of cloistered, meditative peace.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
  • The result is a zanier and livelier ride than the cloistered and predictable Harry’s House.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
  • However, the young woman begins to feel a calling from God and decides to embrace the life of a cloistered nun.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2026
  • However, the young woman begins to feel a calling from God and decides to embrace the life of a cloistered nun.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2026
  • However, the young woman begins to feel a calling from God and decides to embrace the life of a cloistered nun.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Sanchez compared it Anne Frank’s cloistered hideaway from the Nazis in a secret attic.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Moore had found not only a friend of her own rare mental calibre but an adventurous young soul who brought light and air into her cloistered world.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017
  • The cloistered intensity of debate also came to define her social world.
    — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025

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