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
And then he thought of the three years she had suffered immurement, uncomplaining, and a flush of shame warmed him, for he carried fair play as an item in his creed.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
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
How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
Our peregrinations made it very clear that Carcassonne was impregnable; it is impossible to imagine, without having seen them, such refinements of immurement, such ingenuities of resistance.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
