as in secluded
screened or sequestered from view behind the stately townhouses lie cloistered gardens that the public never sees

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Recent Examples of cloistered Or maybe the font is just denoting the cloistered lives of the people at this film’s center. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025 As cinematic tapestry, Mitevska’s cloistered film does feel cut from the cloth of Calcutta in 1948 and from the Catholic missionary work one attributes to that time. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025 The cloistered intensity of debate also came to define her social world. Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 The Trappist monk Thomas Merton describes a similar experience on the streets of Louisville, Kentucky, on a rare occasion when leaving his cloistered monastery. Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for cloistered
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  • The killer targeted and gunned down couples parked in secluded spots on the city’s outskirts, and in several cases, the bodies of female victims were discovered to be mutilated.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • There are several exciting ways to explore its most secluded corners.
    Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 22 Oct. 2025
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  • Alice Cooper discovered his love of entertaining in the Cortez High School cafetorium, returning to the Valley in the ’80s after finding fame and fortune as the rock star most likely to inspire sleepless nights for sheltered parents of Boomers Gone Wild.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • These can be low-lying areas in your yard, such as slopes or valleys, that are colder than higher or sheltered areas, such as at the top of a hill or near a brick retaining wall.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • The 61-year-old loves the hunt, and sifting through old belongings and hidden gems is what keeps him going.
    Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Scheeres’s work also inspired me to research the troubled teen industry, the hidden arm of America’s prison industrial complex, a largely unregulated network of religious and secular therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness programs, private youth programs, and drug rehabilitation centers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Cloistered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloistered. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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