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.
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The Idaho town was a bit too cloistered though, at least for Dawson.
—Samuel Gilbert, Outside Online, 16 May 2020
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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
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The yacht’s in Greece, which makes for a lovely visual getaway in these cloistered times.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2020
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Joe Biden is working the phones with top donors while cloistered in his Delaware home.
—Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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Sanchez compared it Anne Frank’s cloistered hideaway from the Nazis in a secret attic.
—Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Others are turning to monks and other experts in cloistered life.
—Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
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After all, workplaces can sometimes feel cloistered and gossipy and dull.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 12 May 2021
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World events unraveled our daily lives and rearranged them in new and cloistered shapes.
—Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
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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
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My father couldn't have come from a more quintessentially cloistered background.
—David Jefferys, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2017
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Having inherited a small fortune, the long-cloistered heiress hungers for friendship and love.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2019
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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
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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
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His childhood was lonely and cloistered, and his father was mostly absent.
—Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
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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
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The gendered rituals seemed exotic and cloistered, each swaddled in it’s own kind of mystery.
—Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
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Low lighting casts tapering shadows throughout the cloistered space: The air somehow feels charged with portent.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Solar Power is honest; its truths just feel cloistered and distant sometimes.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
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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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Most people travel to cities not to stay cloistered in a hotel, but to experience the shopping, dining, museums, and bars.
—Sara Clemence, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2020
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