Example Sentences

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China is trying to prevent virus infections with a so-called bubble that has walled off Games participants from Chinese society.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2022

Voiced by a holier-than-thou Simon McBurney with such loathsome relish that you can practically smell the colonization reeking off the screen, Cromwell has walled himself inside a heavily fortified Irish hamlet when the story begins.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2020

For now, though, the guy has walled himself in.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2016

The Pompidou, with restraint and politesse, has walled off the Gehry show from those emerging approaches.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2014

It seems to me that all my life long some one has walled me up in a nice, safe nest and fed me through my longings and desires.

From The Place Beyond the Winds by Potter, Harry Spafford