Example sentences for: cloisters

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In a sense, the Nonesuch film-music series is like the Cloisters, the hodgepodge of medieval sculpture rescued from crumbling monasteries and churches all over France and patched together in New York City's Fort Tryon Park.

  • On the southeast edge of the Vomero hill just below the massive Castel Sant’­Elmo, the elegant Baroque Charterhouse Certosa di San Martino offers a soothing haven of tranquility in its cloisters and monastery gardens — and unbeatable views.

  • Next to the church are the lovely 14th-century cloisters (Chiostro delle Clarisse), converted in 1742 into a country garden of shaded walkways and Capodimonte ceramic tiles — a delightful haven of tranquility and one of Naples’ most charming spots.


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