Sample Sentences for
cloister
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(editor-reviewed)

cloister in the architectural sense

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The monks walked silently through the cloister that surrounded the garden courtyard.
cloister = covered walkway around a courtyard
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    The old university’s cloister provided a peaceful place for students to study and reflect.
    cloister = arched walkway beside a courtyard
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    I listened to it over and over while staring out at the north cloister.  (source)
    cloister = a covered walkway and the courtyard it surrounds
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    Between the glowing columns of the cloister is the cool darkness that only churches have, and I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.  (source)
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    This figure of the study and the cloister, as Hester Prynne's womanly fancy failed not to recall, was slightly deformed, with the left shoulder a trifle higher than the right.†  (source)
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    Now he's got the congregation to agree to tearing down half of that beautiful old church of ours, going to put up an education building with a cloistered walk leading out from the church—we saw the pictures, didn't we Editha?  (source)
    cloistered = a covered walkway with columns along one or more sides of a courtyard
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    More than once the holy cloisters on Moriah resounded with the cries of fighting-men.†  (source)
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    It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamor.†  (source)
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    By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars (there, not without a glance at Hanging-Sword Alley, which would seem to be something in his way), and by Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far-famed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he, ready to chop him into mince-meat any day he dares.†  (source)
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    Even in the late morning, the shadows were as deep as those in a monastery cloister.†  (source)
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    She had a normal life that did not include being cloistered in a bubble for fourteen hours a day with her sick teenage daughter.†  (source)
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    The Gothic halls and cloisters were infinitely more mysterious as they loomed suddenly out of the darkness, outlined each by myriad faint squares of yellow light.†  (source)
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    Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.†  (source)
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    By the third week the cloister of the Convent of St. Clare was full all the way to its poplar-lined walks, and it was necessary to use the Community's orchard, which was twice as large, as a cemetery.†  (source)
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cloister in the religious sense

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    After years of public life, he longed for the peace of a cloister.
    cloister = place of religious seclusion
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    A hive suggests cloister more than bordello.  (source)
    cloister = residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
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    A cloister is closed to the outside world, Adam.  (source)
    cloister = residence that is a place of religious seclusion
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The clink of glasses and the slap of hands on the bars issued from saloons, cloisters of glazed glass and dirty yellow light.  (source)
cloisters = a place of seclusion from the outside world -- usually a religious residence such as a monastery
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cloister as in:  cloister ourselves away

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    During the storm, the villagers cloistered their livestock in a protected barn.
    cloistered = kept safely away
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    These scholars broke with the cloistered tradition of mathematics in several important ways.  (source)
    cloistered = secluded from others (separate from others)
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    He supposed Ron and Hermione were cloistered in the prefects' carriage, but Ginny was a little way along the corridor, chatting to some friends.  (source)
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    I meant to cover it just as much as could be, Diana, but when I carried it in I was imagining I was a nun—of course I'm a Protestant but I imagined I was a Catholic—taking the veil to bury a broken heart in cloistered seclusion; and I forgot all about covering the pudding sauce.  (source)
    cloistered = secluded from the world
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    Drone of the engines, aisle lights very dim, stewardess asleep no doubt, or smoking a cigarette in her tight barren cloister musing on a dress she has half-finished, folded up in her closet to await her return, hidden carefully, sullenly, like all other signs of her existence, because her roommate has gentleman friends when she is gone, a working agreement: when she returns, exit roommate, and when she leaves again she vanishes utterly, like smoke.  (source)
    cloister = kept away from the outside world
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    Martha was a cloistered nun in a convent outside Portland, Maine.  (source)
    cloistered = seclude from the world
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    We're not cloistered.  (source)
    cloistered = secluded from the world
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    ere the bat hath flown His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons,  (source)
    cloistered = secluded or hidden
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