cloister
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A series of unfortunate events ultimately lead to her permanent cloister, a tiny cell built into the wall of a cathedral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
Into the small cloister, through a hallway to the large cloister.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
It offers contemporary art, scary medieval weapons and Gothic cloisters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
Finally, as we’re not all venturing out of our pandemic cloisters just yet, here’s a fun Italian red to order online for your next pizza night.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2021
Once, when playing Shakespeare’s Richard III, he pasted pages of the script to pillars in the school’s cloisters and spent the performance running between them.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019
The broader evidence also suggests that Japanese researchers are stepping out of their intellectual cloisters.
From Nature ● Mar. 19, 2019
He carried Robin in and out of halls and chambers, kitchen and parlor, cloisters and outer court; through refectory and almonry, stopping, as always, in the chapel to say a prayer.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
But until then, I cherish my cloistered time by the spoonful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
On Tuesday, Homeboy Industries acquired the Monastery of the Angels, a hidden oasis in the Hollywood Hills where cloistered Dominican nuns lived for nearly 90 years before vacating the site in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
“Why, P. D., what on earth did you lock your car for here in this cloistered atmosphere?”
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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
Both the paintings and the small gallery holding them feel cloistering yet claustrophobic.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
And they say they have considered adding metal detectors, only to conclude that they are unnecessary and cloistering.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2018
I hang up and run to the bathroom, steamy and cloistering.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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