cloister
Example Sentences
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She picked Gita Kaur, whose grandmother had kept Gita virtually cloistered in the family house in Nairobi until she was 19.
There the nun discovers her own inner sleuth, and unexpectedly finds joy in life outside the cloister.
Even so, she didn’t live in a cloister.
The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.
From BBC
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
