immure

Example Sentences

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We’re in that place on the human map too often avoided by American novelists: poverty, the subtle prison where society’s marginalized are immured, pick your particular referent.

From New York Times

Andreas Ban immures himself in his apartment on a mission to amputate his memories, trying to forswear speech, and even thought, while his body goes to ruin with breast cancer, hemorrhoids, glaucoma.

From New York Times

She spoke wistfully of freedom, but she was effectively immured.

From New York Times

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

The more he tries to escape from the lake in which he stands, the more he becomes immured.

From Salon