within these four walls
Example Sentences
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Every subject under the sun has been debated within these four walls.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2021
Nothing to do with me and I’ve been in all week, so I know there’s been no action within these four walls.
From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2016
"But I am not going to substitute my experience as a United States Senator and as a military strategist and organizer within these four walls for the expert knowledge which he possesses."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even within these four walls there was too much misery, too much seemingly pointless suffering.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
His cousin Sue is just the same—so I've heard; but I have not seen the child for years, though she was born in this place, within these four walls, as it happened.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
