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

They would take her from him certainly; perhaps immure her in a convent.

From Romance by Joseph Conrad

But, on the other hand, she stood ready to sacrifice everything, in order to build some new wall of interest about him, that she might immure him from his past.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown

"What was Oliver's enmity towards you, that he should immure you here all these years?"

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

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

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

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

From the humanist point of view, it immures the mind in the study of remote epochs and past civilisations, and does nothing to prepare the pupil for the fulfilment of contemporary duties.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

This is the cloister Where he immures me—Naples' gayest revels; The only bar wherewith he hedges me Is his unbounded trust, that leaves me free.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus

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

Portland Fire & Rescue responded to reports of a person immured in a pond near Portland’s Heron Lakes Golf Club at around 8:17 a.m.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

Such findings remain mostly immured in the academy, however.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2020

“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

Else in earliest youth thy friend might lose thee: Thou might’st be immured in the foundation!”

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

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

If you've been immuring yourself, as you have on your own confession, for some two months, or more, an afternoon with good company is indispensable.

From The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

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

I am amazed, Don Lorenzo, how you could possibly think of immuring so charming a Girl within the walls of a Cloister!'

From The Monk; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis