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

I will not censure particular fraternities, when in a like spirit they immure themselves, and will have no concern with art and history, philosophy and the world.

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall

Can it, can it be, my lord and husband, That so young, thou, reckless, would’st immure me?

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

For nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space.

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

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

No trophy this—a Stone unhewn,   And stands where here the field immures The nameless brave whose palms are won.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville

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

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

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

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

“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

"He lives immured within the Bastile of a word."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The daughter-wife, after immuring herself for half a day with nautical dictionaries and chocolate creams, could not tell whether she was Rudderina or Maratima; she finally concluded that she was Nautica.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins

And there is something so disturbingly immuring and depersonalizing about it!

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

When Kate took to immuring herself in her room he felt that it was time for him to interfere.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle