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
How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
For this immurement, however, there exists fair compensation in the shape of a very pretty garden, or rather a series of garden spaces, which surround the dwelling on three sides.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn
There have been horrible instances of voluntary immurement in Christian Europe, and above all in the Christian East; but not quite—though very nearly—as bad as this.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
