How to Use cloistered in a Sentence

cloistered

adjective

• She leads a private, cloistered life in the country.
• He spent most of his adult life cloistered in universities.
• Here are men who move heaven and earth to avoid a 9-to-5, and their cloistered throats say so loud and clear.
  — Melvin Backman, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Idaho town was a bit too cloistered though, at least for Dawson.
  — Samuel Gilbert, Outside Online, 16 May 2020
• Though the last of the nuns left in 1912, there remains a sense of cloistered, meditative peace.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2023
• The yacht’s in Greece, which makes for a lovely visual getaway in these cloistered times.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2020
• Joe Biden is working the phones with top donors while cloistered in his Delaware home.
  — Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• In some ways, her writing mirrors the cloistered space in which these women were groomed and abused, where there is no world beyond the walls of the gym.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• The experience gives him a close-up look at the cloistered country over weeks, not a few days like most outsiders.
  — Jocelyn McClurg, USA TODAY, 2 June 2018
• Sanchez compared it Anne Frank’s cloistered hideaway from the Nazis in a secret attic.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Don’t expect to see the bakers though—the nuns remain cloistered and sell their wares from behind a rotating door.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• The moment when the fairy tale about pure and cloistered colleges began to fall apart can be dated with some precision.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
• Step out the door, across the street and through Horton Plaza and you are immersed in the energetic, if somewhat gritty, offset to the Grant’s cloistered style.
  — Christopher Smith, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2019
• Others are turning to monks and other experts in cloistered life.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
• After all, workplaces can sometimes feel cloistered and gossipy and dull.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
• World events unraveled our daily lives and rearranged them in new and cloistered shapes.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• Already a cloistered world where money and influence reign, the State House promises to become even more remote from those in need.
  — Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• My father couldn't have come from a more quintessentially cloistered background.
  — David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2017
• Having inherited a small fortune, the long-cloistered heiress hungers for friendship and love.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
• Outside of the cloistered world that serious chess players inhabit, few would have taken any special note of the death last month of Pal Benko at age 91.
  — Peter Nicholas, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019
• In reality, a New Yorker would have to live a pretty cloistered life to end up in such a homogeneous clique.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 10 Sep. 2019
• His childhood was lonely and cloistered, and his father was mostly absent.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• Over the course of two years, almost a hundred women and girls in a cloistered Mennonite community in Bolivia were drugged and raped.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2019
• The gendered rituals seemed exotic and cloistered, each swaddled in it’s own kind of mystery.
  — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
• Low lighting casts tapering shadows throughout the cloistered space: The air somehow feels charged with portent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Based on Spain’s first case of vampirism documented by the Catholic Church, a young woman is sent in 1755 to a cloistered monastery where several novices suffer a strange blood disease.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• And cloistered nuns, their lives! Silence and meditation are essential to maintaining a necessary inner peace in the midst of the pressures of the world.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 14 Oct. 2017
• Todd, the mistress of Dickinson’s brother, cast the poet as strange and solitary to style herself as a liberator, bringing to light the work of a cloistered genius.
  — Seth Perlow, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
• Solar Power is honest; its truths just feel cloistered and distant sometimes.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• Moore had found not only a friend of her own rare mental calibre but an adventurous young soul who brought light and air into her cloistered world.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2017

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