Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: cloisters
IPA transcription: [kl'ɔɪstɚz]
Usage examples
  • Before seven o'clock, the whole school, choristers and king's scholars, assembled in the cloisters.
  • She took the veil in the convent where she was confined, and went as a nun into the cloisters with the other sisters.
  • I would also have the work about the temple finished, and the cloisters, and if there be any thing else that ought to be rebuilt.
  • The number of people now engaged in printing books and papers is larger by far than in the days when all the books of the world were written by the old monks in their cloisters.
  • The occurrence naturally caused him to cast back his thoughts to that other trick-the locking him into the cloisters, in which Jenkins had been a fellow-victim--and he doubled his fists in impotent anger.
  • The mother walks gravely to and fro under the arches of her cloisters, she stops first here, then there; she makes a lengthy auscultation of the egg-wallet; she listens to all that happens inside the satin wrapper.