immured

Example Sentences

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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

“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

But it also sounds, marvelously, like a geographical location in which a character from a Paul Bowles novel might be immured.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2018

For these writers, institutions "immured" their pupils, treating them like prisoners.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2014

From the room where they were immured strange sounds occasionally escaped; sometimes Wheeler laughed and sometimes he swore furiously.

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia