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
Instead, water was directed at the burnt trucks for hours in order to cool down the batteries enough to move them to storage, wherein they could be immured in sand or submerged entirely in water.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 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
In this district lived, immured in his fort, one of the native rajahs, who, with questionable justice, have gradually been shorn of their regal state and authority, to become pensioners of the East India Company.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
