cloister

Unlike most campus fiction, its scope extends well beyond the cloister of the liberal arts classroom to whammy the entire university system, from its financial model to its function within a globalized economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

The centre is described as a series of red brick "pavilions" housing care and social spaces, stitched together by a central timber "cloister".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

“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

Antoni Gaudí’s Basilica Sagrada Família contains familiar components of that style: a Latin Cross layout, Gothic arches, cloisters, representations of saints and apostles, rose windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Gloucester’'s historic cathedral cloisters were transformed into the corridors of Hogwart’s for the first two films and the Gothic building's lavatorium - a washing place - also features several times.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2021

Above the flowery cloisters, ferocious-looking gargoyles ignored the children noisily chasing each other and stretched toward the indigo late-summer sky, praying for rain.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

Bounding up he slipped around the door, slammed it and fled off through the cloisters.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

But inside the cloistered environs of the Christian right, it reads as tough.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

Journalists who work for institutions are so cloistered and shut down at this point.

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2025

He supposed Ron and Hermione were cloistered in the prefects’ carriage, but Ginny was a little way along the corridor, chatting to some friends.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

Others are signing up for defense classes or are cloistering themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

Is that truck double-parked on the streets of New York part of a movie set, a luxury trailer for cloistering camera-shy movie stars?

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020

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

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

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