cloister

Example Sentences

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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

A chocolate kitchen, chocolate serving room, chocolate cloister and full chocolate staff are optional.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2023

To communicate with volunteers and priests, the sisters normally spoke through a turn, a barrel-shaped revolving cabinet used to pass goods into the monastery without violating the cloister.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2023

Abbot Mortimer lay in the cloister gardens surrounded by his mice and woodland friends.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques