immurement
Example Sentences
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Like Jack, who struggles to move beyond immurement in his tech world and make human contact with Sally, De Palma has encountered a similar challenge in his own life.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2017
The upset released our characters from the horrors of prison immurement, only to plunge them in the more awful tyranny of the New Terror.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
At the conclusion of this half century's immurement what would the world say to the Polish composer's music?
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
"Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
