Example sentences for: cloisters

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

  • Like the Cloisters, these discs contain ravishingly crafted bits and pieces extracted from their intended setting; restored, reassembled, and asked to keep right on glowing exactly as they did before.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There is something perverse about the Cloisters' demand that the essential quality of a work of art remain intact, even when it is dropped into an alien habitat.

  • 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.


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