Example Sentences

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Walking underneath the Santa Cruz regrowth, intoxicated by the look and smells of those cloister-like forests I forgot that the enormous creatures above me were mostly youngsters.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted.

From Time Magazine Archive

I know that, all because of your nephew, she is condemned to a cloister-like life, and cannot so much as step into the street unless I am with her.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

Round an irregular four-sided space, about five hundred feet by two, ran a low cloister-like building, called Les Charniers, or the Charnel Houses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

In addition there was a cloister-like building at the back, where in hours of play refuge might be sought from the weather.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen