cloistered

How To Use cloistered In A Sentence

• Why then mystify the clear and limpid line by making of the rituals cloistered and fetid mysteries when they are open to the sky, unregimented, free, and democratic? An Autobiography
• Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived a cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha. The Old Foodie
• The feudal system is cloistered and I welcomed the change as it gave me a chance to grow emotionally and spiritually.
• More than 25 years ago, Koestenbaum traded the cloistered halls of academia for the front lines of the global economy.
• When it was time to leave the cloistered halls of academia and put all her knowledge to use, she chose to come to Pattaya to work.
• Was she too cloistered in that museum of a mill, living alone with her mother among all their memories and memorabilia ? GRACE
• Cherie Burns has written a bracing, sex-and-shopping account of that life, suggesting that haute couture provided a cloistered young debutante a way to "lay claim to herself" and become a sophisticated socialite. She Wore It Well
• These sceptical, cautious and cloistered arrangements constitute the distinctive institutions of science which separate it from other more worldly activities.
• But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
• Nevertheless Suger was no cloistered academic.