immurement

Example Sentences

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Like Jack, who struggles to move beyond immurement in his tech world and make human contact with Sally, De Palma has encountered a similar challenge in his own life.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2017

How delicious is that refreshing breeze after his terrible immurement!

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

For this immurement, however, there exists fair compensation in the shape of a very pretty garden, or rather a series of garden spaces, which surround the dwelling on three sides.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

"Two years after your immurement in the cell, the food having been for some time untouched, the wall was opened, and upon the pallet was found a decayed carcase in mouldering, monkish vestments."

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

The upset released our characters from the horrors of prison immurement, only to plunge them in the more awful tyranny of the New Terror.

From Orphans of the Storm by MacMahon, Henry