Example Sentences
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The Gothic arches in the creature's cell are from the vaulted arches of the cloisters at the University of Glasgow.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
It offers contemporary art, scary medieval weapons and Gothic cloisters.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Finally, as we’re not all venturing out of our pandemic cloisters just yet, here’s a fun Italian red to order online for your next pizza night.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2021
Once, when playing Shakespeare’s Richard III, he pasted pages of the script to pillars in the school’s cloisters and spent the performance running between them.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019
The Palace of Erhenrang is an inner city, a walled wilderness of palaces, towers, gardens, courtyards, cloisters, roofed bridgeways, roofless tunnel-walks, small forests and dungeon-keeps, the product of centuries of paranoia on a grand scale.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
