Example sentences for: cloistered

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

  • The social status of women in Spanish colonial society was limited and cloistered, with their primary social venues consisting of church and home.

  • (Two of the children died of pneumonia soon after these inexplicable events; the third, Lucia, now in her 90s, has been a cloistered Carmelite nun in Coimbra since 1929 and makes very few public appearances.)

  • Since 1947, Cistercians have taken over from the Carthusian monks living in an adjoining cloistered wing, but continue to manufacture Certosa’s well-known Chartreuse liqueur and herbal soaps in an adjoining shop.

  • True to the myth, the reclusive Hughes immediately cloistered himself in the Desert Inn’s penthouse.

  • In the 13th-century cloistered cemetery of the Camposanto (Holy Ground — believed to be filled with sacred dirt brought back from the Holy Land during the Crusades), note the Gothic tabernacle enclosing a Madonna and Saints.


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