immured
Example Sentences
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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
While he had been immured in the pedestal a murmuring sound only penetrated to his ears, and he believed that the room was filled with armed men who were looking for him.
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
