immure

The U.S. has had to learn--repeatedly, with every immigrant wave--that it cannot immure itself behind a wall of immigration restrictions and cultural purity.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Side by side with this nunnery, where the precocious child passed one of the happiest epochs of her life, stood the prison which was to immure her in later years.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

She might take a sudden resolve and immure herself before I can return!

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

Eloquent silence! able to immure An atheist's thoughts, and blast an epicure.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

E'en to the darkened dungeon that immures Thy soul, some feeble glimmer finds its way.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

Our prison strong, this huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round Ninefold; and gates of burning adamant, Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

No trophy this—a Stone unhewn,   And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville

I didn't know anybody could escape from that awful sort of prison-house in which our—I'm English now—in which our upper class immures itself.

From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

My acquaintance with Mrs. Gerome is too slight to warrant the utterance of an opinion relative to her idiosyncrasies, but I am afraid cynicism rather than grief immures her from society.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson

Abandoned by or cut off from their families, they are immured in lonely old age, waiting with restless resignation as the hours of their lives wind down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

“She is a friendless orphan,” said Levy, “whose relatives have immured her in an asylum without ever producing her for the court.”

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2019

Foderé mentions some workmen who were extricated alive from a cold damp cavern, in which they had been immured under a ruin for fourteen days.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Whether he’s an exemplar of patient fortitude or of contemptible cowardice, Assange, 44, has managed to frustrate the British and Swedish governments by immuring himself within the embassy, which is treated as Ecuadorean territory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2015

He learned this fact by immuring himself in an air-conditioned laboratory for twelve days last winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

To think of immuring such a fair creature within the dull walls of a cloister!”

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid

If fault there was, it was as wife, in immuring herself in a convent and denying the marriage.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by John Lord

She had heard that her relations had even discussed the advisability of immuring her in a convent if she could be caught,—but she did not mean to be caught.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall