Example Sentences

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Which is why so many tribes are walling off the outside world.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2020

“Carbon dioxide clouds the mind: it directly degrades our ability to think clearly, and we are walling it into our places of education and pumping it into the atmosphere,” he writes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2018

White, wriggly grubs about the size of a human thumb are walling themselves off inside rotting logs.

From National Geographic • May 11, 2018

Thursday, January 28.—Most of the men are walling in new potato patches.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary