Example sentences for: cloister

How can you use “cloister” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The famous set of frescoes in the tomb of Prince Zhanghuai depicts an animated polo match, a hunting expedition, a reception for foreign diplomats, and (most movingly) a scene in a court cloister with a young concubine looking longingly at a bird in flight.

  • The Convento de Nossa Senhora da Assunção (Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption), the first Renaissance building in the Algarve, contains what is arguably the most beautiful cloister in southern Portugal.

  • Exhibitions of art and books are held in the various halls off the cloister.

  • Historically, the bulk of the human race has never known a classroom, let alone a cloister or an ivory tower, or met up with teachers empowered by letters after their names.

  • On the right side of La Rambla is the old Hotel Oriente, which preserves part of the 17th century cloister of a Franciscan school inside.


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