immure
Example Sentences
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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
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
She might take a sudden resolve and immure herself before I can return!
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker
"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 Sala, George Augustus
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
