cloister

There the nun discovers her own inner sleuth, and unexpectedly finds joy in life outside the cloister.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 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

All the homies at the cloister are going to be rocking these.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

“Consider,” Father Monaghan says, “that you are going to an austere cloister, a Carmel, where Christ awaits you.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

It offers contemporary art, scary medieval weapons and Gothic cloisters.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came to life in various locations, including Durham Cathedral's ancient cloisters in the franchise's first big screen outing.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

Today, in the regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, Dante’s rhymes can be found inscribed on the walls of cafes, alleys and cloisters, his verses about gluttony and malice alongside menus and bus schedules.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 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 cloisters were once more free of strangers and the corridors cleared of beds and pallets.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

She picked Gita Kaur, whose grandmother had kept Gita virtually cloistered in the family house in Nairobi until she was 19.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

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

In the intervening years, Anderson, who is 95, has plumbed the cloistered world of clock collectors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

Yet his work has never stayed cloistered within academia.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

Fernanda's cloistered passion built an impenetrable dike against Úrsula's torrential hundred years.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Even as a child he was a bibliomaniac, spending his waking hours flipping pages “stiff as cartilage,” deciphering marginalia and cloistering himself in a reality of his own making.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2014

I hang up and run to the bathroom, steamy and cloistering.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali