cloistered

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

He was born into the cloistered art world as the son of a German Jewish art dealer who fled Berlin in the 1930s and restarted his business in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 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

The rich, dim interiors of Cohn’s cloistered world give way to the gaudy, golden posturing of Trump’s living spaces.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2024

When Clara was alive and Alba was still a child, the big house on the comer was a cloistered world in which she grew up protected even from her own nightmares.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende