immure
verb (used with object)
to enclose within walls.
had immured
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past perfectof immure.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
She had immured herself, behind curtained windows and to the light of waxen tapers led the life of a mystic, also smoked the blackest of cigars.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Death was, it said, of so little consequence to the walls which had immured and conquered life itself.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Perhaps he felt that he had cast the key of his tomb through the grated door after he had immured himself within.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
She loved Nina Randolph; but she had immured herself in the cause of friendship long enough, and thought that her afflicted friend would be quite as well off where distractions were more abundant.
From A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
