Example sentences for: cloisters

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

  • Nearby is the Museu Diocesà, housed in a former convent and cloisters on carrer Seminari.

  • The Versailles Gardens, based on Louis XIV’s formal palace gardens outside Paris, have terraces, fountains, and statues that provide a soothing vista, leading the eye from the house to the cloisters.

  • Adjacent are a produce market and stalls, housed in the vast cloisters (Claustre del Carme) of a former convent, selling Abarcas (Menorcan peasant shoes), jewelry, and Menorca’s famous Mahón cheese.

  • It is possible to visit the Cloisters during daylight hours — they stand next to the only road that traverses the island — but they are used regularly for wedding ceremonies, so you might find them closed.

  • 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.


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