Example Sentences

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Walking underneath the Santa Cruz regrowth, intoxicated by the look and smells of those cloister-like forests I forgot that the enormous creatures above me were mostly youngsters.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted.

From Time Magazine Archive

It stands in the midst of a great throng of cloister-like buttes, with the same noble profiles and strong lineaments as those immediately before us, with a plexus of awful chasms between.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton

His own room, shared by a quiet and steady Richmond boy with whom he had a slight acquaintance at home, was in one of the cloister-like dormitories opening upon the main lawn.

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton

The Refuge, as the asylum was called, was a vast edifice of gray stone with a sombre and cloister-like look.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund