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

The National Trust said the walls were the "buried remains of monastery buildings including a cloister and various other buildings, as well as later Tudor alterations".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

They should be able to move into a modular cloister of about 3,500 square feet on the donated land by year’s end, Pfaff said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2023

Into the small cloister, through a hallway to the large cloister.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

I was thrilled to get inside to feel and photograph all of this, as well as the cathedral’s cloisters, in the solitude of the faintest first rays.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021

The Palace of Erhenrang is an inner city, a walled wilderness of palaces, towers, gardens, courtyards, cloisters, roofed bridgeways, roofless tunnel-walks, small forests and dungeon-keeps, the product of centuries of paranoia on a grand scale.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 17, 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

That here at Maxine’s side, in this cloistered wilderness, he is free.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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