Example sentences for: cloisters

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

  • From the ninth to the 13th centuries, more than 2,000 churches were built in Catalonia in the Romanesque style of thick, bare walls with rounded arches for doors, windows, and cloisters.

  • Escape down the little paved road south of town to the peace of the shady Romanesque and Renaissance cloisters of the 14th-century Certosa di San Giacomo, or in the direction of Via Camerelle that eventually leads to the famous Punta Tragara lookout and the Faraglioni.

  • Tuscany, San Gimignano and Lucca stage open-air concerts, while Amalfi’s are given in the cathedral cloisters.

  • The church is rather dark and heavy, a real contrast with the enchanting cloisters, whose slender double columns and stone tracery are light and delicate.

  • As far back as the 13th century, when Paris’s first university moved from the cloisters of Notre-Dame to the Left Bank, the young came to the quartier to learn Latin.


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